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

[John Reagan]

"Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message 
news:7absIkSdGMzZ at eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article <hejq08$nf0$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "FredK" 
> <fred.nospam at dec.com> writes:
>
>> Nobody really
>> knows what a 3GHz VAX with modest changes to the architecture might be
>> capable of today.
>>
>> But all that is beside the point.  I also said in a different point that 
>> I
>> believe that essentially the VAX running out of gas was inevitable.  Even 
>> if
>> it was made faster, the 32-bit VA space was a limitation for the 
>> servers -
>> and technical workstations.
>
>   At the time Alpha was introduced, only a few applications were bound
>   by 32 bit address space.  I know the C compiler supports 64 bit
>   addressing on Alpha, and the Fortran compiler was promised (was it
>   delivered), but I think most of the native language compilers still
>   don't.
>

Pascal has 64-bit pointer support (I added limited support back in 1998 with 
much more complete support in the early 2000s).  COBOL has USAGE IS 
POINTER64.  BASIC doesn't have much pointer typing to begin with.  Don't 
know about Ada right off hand.

John