The Imp language was never ported to the Intel architecture during the heyday of Imp - the X86 was seen as a very poor architecture and not worthy of any intellectual effort.  Back in the days of the 286 that was probably true, and by the time the 3/4/586 architectures were the dominant force in the industry, Imp had already been abandoned by Edinburgh as a systems development or teaching language.  So when this project was created and we started to get our hands on some Imp source code, Andy Davis offered to write a back-end for the Imp77 version of the language.
This he did indeed do and had a usable compiler running in about 6 weeks.  An amazing piece of work which you can [http://imp.nb-info.co.uk/implement.htm read all about at his site].  You can [http://imp.nb-info.co.uk/download.htm download this compiler yourself] and run it on Windows or Linux!  Andy's compiler was bootstrapped using the pre-built parser (pass 1) from Mouses and was bootstrapped by a Skimp compiler which he wrote in C.

-- GrahamToal - 19 Jan 2004