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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-12-23, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2020-12-23 20:15:02 +0000, Robert A. Brooks said:
>
>> On 12/23/2020 2:08 PM, John Reagan 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)
>> 
>> OK, fine --no PILLAR.
>> 

Yes, Pillar. :-) It would have made a nice SIL.

>> How about SCAN or LISP?
>
> Best include DIBOL and PL/I, lest you too end up, um, pilloried.
>

Is anyone still using PL/I BTW ?

I thought DEC sold off the PL/I compiler and that the person it was
sold to retired and either sold off or wound down his business.

Given where Synergex are with Synergy compared to where VAX DIBOL
was before it was made obsolete, it's not viable for VSI to invest
the effort in making a version comparable to Synergy.

Simon.

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