vlv@drux3.UUCP (Vaughn Vernon) (08/21/85)
Hey netland!
Remember I made a comment that Microsoft was really doing some
nice things with their languages ( MSC 3.0 )?
Now Microsoft is offering Xenix versions of all of their languages
that are currently supported under MS-DOS! This appears to be
source code compatibility (ver. object code). 'C' 3.0 provides
relocatable object (not executable) module Xenix compatibility!
The new Xenix languages announced in the Tech Journal are:
*Fortran, Pascal, Cobol and Basic*
The blurb states that programs can be converted with little
or no changes. I wonder if the *little* changes have to do
mostly with non-protected memory dependant things like writing
directly to video memory. How is such a thing taken care of
under Xenix? Or is it?
Disclaimmer: I have no connections with Microsoft. I just like their
recent style.
Vaughn Vernon
AT&T ISL Denver, CO
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