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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-12-23, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)

I've read the Pillar manual and I liked it.

It had a lot of good things in it and if it had been implemented during
the 1980s it would have been a _very_ viable alternative to the C
language that existed at the time.

If it got established, it could have changed computing history and today
we could now have had a viable, and established, Pascal-like alternative
to C when writing operating systems and other low-level code, with
everything that would imply for system security.

Given that the Pillar manual was never officially released but sort-of
"leaked", I wonder if anyone would get into trouble (copyrights, etc)
if they implemented Pillar using, for example, LLVM ?

It could make for an interesting project.

Simon.

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