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Berkeley Pascal
PX Implementation Notes
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Version 2.0 \- January, 1979
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William N. Joy\*(Dg
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M. Kirk McKusick\*(Dd
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Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California  94720
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Berkeley Pascal
is designed for interactive instructional use and runs on the
.SM "VAX 11/780" .
The interpreter
.I px
executes the Pascal binaries generated by the Pascal translator
.I pi .
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The
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PX Implementation Notes
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describe the general organization of
.I px ,
detail the various operations of the interpreter,
and describe the file input/output structure.
Conclusions are given on the viability of an interpreter
based approach to language implementation for an instructional environment.
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Introduction
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These
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PX Implementation Notes
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have been updated from the  original 
.SM "PDP 11/70"
implementation notes to reflect the interpreter that runs on the
.SM "VAX 11/780" .
These notes consist of four major parts.
The first part outlines the general organization of
.I px .
Section 2 describes the operations (instructions) of the interpreter
while section 3 focuses on input/output related activity.
A final section gives conclusions about the viability of an interpreter
based approach to language implementation for instruction.
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Related Berkeley Pascal documents
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The
.I "PXP Implementation Notes"
give details of the internals of the execution profiler
.I pxp;
parts of the interpreter related to
.I pxp
are discussed in section 2.10.
A paper describing the syntactic error recovery mechanism used in
.I pi
was presented at the ACM Conference on Compiler Construction
in Boulder Colorado in August, 1979.
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Acknowledgements
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This version of
.I px
is a
.SM "PDP 11/70"
to
.SM "VAX 11/780"
opcode mapping of the original
.I px
that was designed and implemented by Ken Thompson,
with extensive modifications and additions
by William Joy
and Charles Haley.
Without their work, this
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system would never have existed.
These notes were first written by William Joy for the
.SM "PDP 11/70"
implementation.
We would also like to thank our faculty advisor Susan L. Graham
for her encouragement,
her helpful comments and suggestions
relating to
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and her excellent editorial assistance.
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\*(dg\ The financial support of the National Science Foundation under grants
MCS74-07644-A03 and MCS78-07291
and of an \s-2IBM\s0 Graduate Fellowship are gratefully acknowledged.
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\*(dd\ The financial support of a Howard Hughes Graduate 
Fellowship is gratefully acknowledged.
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