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Baumann, R. (1961) Baumann, R. "ALGOL Manual of the ALCOR Group, Pts. 1, 2 & 3" Elektronische Rechenanlagen No. 5 (Oct. 1961), 206–212; No. 6 (Dec. 1961), 259–265; No. 2 (Apr. 1962); (in German)
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An early "standard" character set for representing ALGOL 60 code on paper and paper tape. This character set introduced the characters "×", ";", "", and "⏨" into the
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In addition to its programming application, as the name Algol is also an astronomical reference, to the star
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was devised which was emulated on various real computers, among them the
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Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification
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Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Papertape, punched card, magnetic tape coding schemes
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International Federation for Information Processing
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Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60
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Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Roi-Namur
compiler
ALGOL 60
Algol
Alcor
magnitude
Zeta Ursae Majoris
omen
ALGOL 60
Siemens 2002
IBM 7090
Miscellaneous Technical
rendering support
question marks, boxes, or other symbols
CCITT-2
BEL control character
Papertape, punched card, magnetic tape coding schemes
ALCOR in The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages
The ALCOR Project
Klaus Samelson
Friedrich L. Bauer
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ALGOL
Implementations
Technical
standards

ALGOL 58
ALGOL 60

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