Flex

software, hardware A system developed by Ian Currie (Iain?)

at the (then) Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at

Malvern in the late 1970s. The hardware was custom and

microprogrammable, with an operating system, (modular)

compiler, editor, garbage collector and filing system

all written in Algol-68. Flex was also re-implemented on

the Perq(?).

[I. F. Currie and others, "Flex Firmware", Technical Report,

RSRE, Number 81009, 1981].

[I. F. Currie, "In Praise of Procedures", RSRE, 1982].

(1997-11-17)