[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/1/2018 2:03 PM, invalid wrote:
> On 2018-08-01, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> However, I find it hard to believe for any newly created compilers.
> 
> There aren't any. It does not make any sense to throw away 50 years of
> development to rewrite something in an inferior language with no OS
> interface just to say you did so.

XL C/C++ for z/OS is using the same Toronto model as XL
compilers for other platforms.

It is not 50 years old.

And I don't believe they rewrote all the C code to assembler
to get it running on z/OS.

Arne