[Info-vax] VMS Software needs to port VAX DIBOL to OpenVMS X86 platform

[John Reagan]

On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 3:14:25 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2020-12-23 19:08:15 +0000, John Reagan said: 
> 
> > On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 1:54:02 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote: 
> > 
> >> expectations and the current market for operating systems. And VSI 
> >> doesn't have MICA source code, and anybody that does have that source 
> >> code is unlikely to share it. 
> > 
> > Please no. Somebody will ask me for a PILLAR compiler (which was 
> > derived from the EPASCAL compiler - compare the PILLAR and EPASCAL 
> > manuals)
> Yeah, seems that Somebody was going through their Pascal Phase back 
> then too, what with EPASCAL and PILLAR and the rest. Never peeked in to 
> see if that was a passing phase, or an ongoing one. 
> 

Don MacLaren.  One of the authors of the "Engineering a Compiler" book.  He was the language designer of the bunch.

"Patricia Anklam; David Cutler; Jr. Roger Heinen; M. Donald MacLaren"