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My father was a programmer on the BESM-series computers back in the 80s, particularly BESM-6. Him and a few former friends/colleagues maintain a site about it:

https://www.besm6.org/

Sorry, the site's all in Russian, and it's running on my dad's NetBSD server at his house. Please be gentle :)

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The stuff at https://github.com/besm6 is great! Being much later, the programs are substantial, but it gives a better sense than the simplified examples like https://github.com/xldenis/besm/blob/master/examples/chapter... .

Indeed, I only provided direct translations of the programs Ershov and Knuth wrote, I never did much in the way work beyond that, my focus was mainly on recreating the compiler itself.

For that I actually copied the pages of the book into the the comments of the code: https://github.com/xldenis/besm/blob/master/compile-pp/src/B...

Ahh, I hadn't found that one! That's a great example, thanks for highlighting it.

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