[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[John Reagan]

"Michael Kraemer" <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote in message 
news:hdidoj$skb$01$1 at news.t-online.com...

> Indeed, the compilers initially shipped with the Ultrix systems
> (can't remember whether Mips or DEC) leave something to be desired.
> But so did first compilers on Alpha, and ISTR stupid bugs in OSF1
> compilers as late as 1996.
>

MIPS Ultrix was the first target for the GEM backend.  Fortran used GEM.  C 
and Pascal used the MIPS techology.  We had a working DEC Pascal 
frontend/GEM backend on MIPS Ultrix as well but we never sold it since we 
already had a MIPS-based Pascal on the platform.

John