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

[Paul Sture]

On 2018-08-03, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 8/3/2018 5:07 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
>> On 02-Aug-18 11:22 AM, Tim Sneddon wrote:
>>> Enterprise PL/I was first released in 1992, so you can look back to 
>>> the 80's
>>> for a compiler that was not written in assembler and ran on z/OS/MVS/etc.
>>> IBM has been in the dark-ages of computing for a very long time when 
>>> it comes
>>> to their mainframe, even worse than VMS has been.
>> 
>> Timbo knows a shit load more than me regarding PL/I, BLISS, and 
>> compilers/parsers in general but I was "programming" (learning) PL/I on 
>> VAX in 1983.
>
> And?
>
> Tim was saying that the first version of the current PL/I
> compiler for IBM mainframe was released in 1992.
>
> That does not contradict that you did PL/I on VMS in 1983.
>
> It would not even contradict that you did PL/I on IBM
> mainframe in 1983, as IBM had other earlier PL/I compilers
> (supposedly the first one showed up in 1966).

To back that up I installed PL?I on a mainframe back in 1980, and its
purpose was to develop a customised version of an application which had
already been running in production elsewhere else for several (many?)
years.


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