Popular Culture
A very early predecessor of this compiler was used by Guy and Bourne to write the first life game programs on the PDP-7 with a DEC 340 display (see Scientific American article) "For long-lived populations such as this one Conway sometimes uses a PDP-7 computer with a screen on which he can observe the changes. The program was written by M. J. T. Guy and S. R. Bourne. Without its help some discoveries about the game would have been difficult to make." Scientific American 223 (October 1970): 120-123.
Various Liverpool Software Gazette issues detail the Z80 implementation. The compiler required about 120Kb of memory to run, hence the Z80's 64Kb memory is actually too small to run the compiler. So ALGOL 68C programs for the Z80 had to be cross compiled from ALGOL 68C running on the larger CAP capability computer or an IBM System/370 mainframe.
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