Date   : Thu, 06 Jun 1991 14:02:55 GMT
From   : csn!cherokee!skipy!tpoind@handies.ucar.edu (Tom Poindexter)
Subject: Re: PL/I compiler

In article <1991Jun06.124251.241@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor
P. Cahill) writes:
>dww@math.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes:
>>PL/I? On an MS-DOS or CP/M (!!!) platform with close to full
>>implementation? Well, the beast compiler we used to use on our

comment: remember that long ago, in a place far away, Fortran & Cobol were
compiled on
cpus with 4096 words of memory (not kilobytes or megabytes, just 4,096).

>
>I had a PL/1 compiler for MS-DOS about 5 years ago.  I'll look around
>my basement to see if I can come up with the manufacturer (I know it
>was distributed by IBM).
>

It was distributed by Digital Research.  The compiler first came out for
8080 in CP/M,
then migrated to 8086 & MS-DOS.  It was *quite* buggy;  I don't think DR
ever released
any version beyond 1.0.  The compiler supposedly supported PL/I ANSI Subset G.

There is some sort of PL/I language *interpreter* on Simtel20.  Look for
RUNPLI or some such.  

-- 
Tom Poindexter        tpoind@uswest.com       ..!uunet!boulder!uswat!tpoind

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