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Re: VOLITION

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On 2023-06-14 15:17, Chris Chiesa wrote:
> On Friday, October 8, 1993 at 12:30:35 AM UTC-4, Randy Bush wrote:
>> and...@ESSEX.STFX.CA (John Andrea) writes:
>>> I just happen to have a manual for Volition Systems Modula-2 right here
>>> on my shelf.
>>> ...
>>> Author: Richard Gleaves
>> Much of which was later published by Springer Verlag as "Modula-2 for Pascal
>> Programmers." Gleaves's style was as simple, direct, and elegant as the
>> language.
>> --
>> ra...@psg.com ...!uunet!m2xenix!randy
> 
> And here I am, thirty years later, trying to boot, under vDos, copy of Volition Systems Modula-2 from a college course I took in 1985.  The main screen comes up, but it never gets to accepting top-level-command input; just sits there chewing about 48% of the CPU.  I suspect it may be looking for a second floppy, or a second Modula-2 volume (I'm booting something named SYSVOL, from the same "floppy" as M2.exe itseIf).  Clearly, *something* it needs is not available where sought.
> 
> Randy, if you still have that manual, and ever see this message, does it say anything about system prerequisites that I need to meet?


The Internet Archive has a 405-page manual on Volition Systems 0.3j 
(https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_volitionSy20.3jIBMPC_14753891), 
which may or may not help.

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