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

[Michael Kraemer]

John Reagan schrieb:
> "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.
>>
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> 
> 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 
> 
> 

ISTR having more trouble with "Fortran for RISC",
but that may have been due to more heavy usage of Fortran rather than C.