[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 23 May 2012 10:40:21 -0400, John Reagan wrote:

> Again, don't forget that you need BLISS and C just for the OS and you'll
> want all the rest of the compilers for the customer base.  GEM's old x86
> target was 32-bit only, just did the things that Visual Fortran
> required, and generated Windows object files and Windows debugging info.
>  All of that would need fixing.  And switching to some other code
> generator (gcc, LLVM, open64) might work but I'd have to think about it.

ISTR some standard utilities were written in Pascal and possibly other 
languages.  I used to see the occasional stack dump which revealed the 
language.



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Paul Sture