* Posts by HailHenry

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ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree

HailHenry

Re: Wirthless

Not completely lost! Burroughs (now Unisys) still provides mainframe platforms running the MCP operating system, which is itself written in an ALGOL dialogue. As is most of the environmental software and elements of many of the applications running on MCP platforms. You can request a download of a free, not for business use, full copy of the MCP platform environment (known as MCP Express) here - https://www.unisys.com/offerings/clearpath-forward/clearpath-forward-products/clearpath-mcp-software/clearpath-mcp-express. MCP nowadays runs on Intel Xeon-based platforms (proprietary hardware platforms haven't been available for some time now), and MCP Express will run on a variety of Windows desktop OSs.