[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Neil Rieck]

On May 25, 5:09 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <4fbfd0d1$0$2291$c3e8da3$1cbc7... at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> writes:
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> > Pardon my ignorance here, but does Macro32 *compiler* have 64 bit
> > extensions ?
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>     It does on Alpha.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/alpha_diary.html#macro64

But I think people quickly realized that a smart C-compiler can beat
the pants off any programmer using Macro64 so they decided to give it
away. Whether anyone likes it or not, getting your code moved over to
C means future portability (probably why HP-UX was ported to x86 so
quickly although no one has presented us with the details)

NSR