torki@floenz1.doit.sub.org (Torsten Kirschner) (03/21/90)
Hello, in message <1259@prles2.prl.philips.nl> Harm Munk (munk@cstw10.prl.philips.nl) writes: > There is a Simula-67 compiler for the PC, released about two years ago, but I > don't remember the name of the company which developed it. What I rememeber, > it was a Scandinavian company, probably from Norway. If you can't find any > lead, I'll could make some inquiries. The F.R.G. computer magazine c't just tested a similar Simula Compiler, PC-Simula Release 108 from Simula a.s., Norway. The price for the complete MSdos set ist 870 DM (West), or 520 DM (West) for students. It includes the Compiler, Linker, Runtime Libraries, Debugger as well as an interactive dos shell plus the books "The Simula-Standard" and "The PC Simula Program- mers Reference Guide". The same compiler is available for Xenix286/386, Unix 286/386 and OShalfe, also, providing a much more "professinal" price. To make a long review short: Compiler performance: on a 12 MHz AT ca. 1300 lines per minute. Since Simula is intended to be highly portable, this compiler copes with sources coming from various systems like DEC VAX and Siemens BS2000. Using the magazines own high level language test programs, these performance results are achieved: PC-Simula Turbo Pascal 5.5 Turbo C 2.0 Integer 0.17 0.10 0.11 Real(Double) w/ and w/out FPU 0.62/57.7 0.71/7.3 0.71/7.25 TrigLog ditto 0.75/362 0.4/5.2 0.5 Text 16.04 10.75 16.37 Graphics * 0.63 0.8 File access 1.0 0.95 0.95 * PC-Simula has no graphics library yet, only an interface to DOS functions. Test results summary: pro's con's +++++ ----- + high portability because of - no real make-utility complete implementation + mighty symbolic source-level- - creates big EXE-files debugger + complete recompilation and - no development-environment mutually using modules. + good code-optimisation - poor real arithmetics w/out FPU So far, so good, I hope this information provides some useful help for you. Torsten /*----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | subnet : torki@floenz1.doit.sub.org usenet : torki@floenz1.UUCP| | bitnet : EKNOF @ DM0MPF11 Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research| | mailnet : T.R. Kirschner, Schwanthalerstr. 83, D-8000 Muenchen 2, W.-Germany| |phonenet : {+49 | 0}89 5328834 between XMas and New Year: {+49 | 0}5206 3608| \----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ Und irgendwo er, lachend, in einer weisz getuenchten Dachkammer, die fernen Finger zaertlich auf dem Deck, das Gesicht mit Freudentraenen ueberstroemt. W.G.