rro@excell.colostate.edu (Rod Oldehoeft) (09/14/87)
[] I'm posting this for someone not currently reading news. Plz respond by email to me, and I'll forward the information. We're looking for a 68k-based implementation of Modula-2 to run on HP computers. Source code is desired, would be convenient if written in C. Please direct us to who supplies such a compiler, what costs are, any good or bad experiences, etc. Thanks in advance. Rod Oldehoeft Computer Science Dept. Colorado State University hao!handel!rro rro@lll-crg.arpa
vandys@Lindy.STANFORD.EDU (Andy Valencia) (09/16/87)
In article <208@excell.colostate.edu> rro@excell.colostate.edu (Rod Oldehoeft) writes: >[] > >We're looking for a 68k-based implementation of Modula-2 to run on >HP computers. Source code is desired, would be convenient if written >in C. > I ported the Zurich one-pass 68K compiler onto a no-name box made by Telematics. It runs fine, with mediocre code generation. The license is only $1000, so it's a pretty cheap evaluation path. I'll be moving to HP in a couple weeks, so I'd be somewhat available for a portation to the HP-9000/300 series (I sort of planned to do so anyway, conditional on HP shelling out for a license). In general, I'd say that the one-pass compiler is a realistic path for anyone with a 68000 box. I cross-compiled it from my PC, using Modula Corp's one-pass native 8086 compiler. Very few problems indeed. Some day I'll port the post-mortem debugger (included in the $1000) and be in very good shape indeed. Andy Valencia vandys@lindy.stanford.edu br.ajv@rlg.BITNET
kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) (09/18/87)
In article <208@excell.colostate.edu> rro@excell.colostate.edu (Rod Oldehoeft) writes: >We're looking for a 68k-based implementation of Modula-2 to run on >HP computers. Source code is desired, would be convenient if written >in C. > >Rod Oldehoeft >Computer Science Dept. >Colorado State University >hao!handel!rro >rro@lll-crg.arpa Hmm. Oxxi Inc. Just released, in beta, with a full release scheduled this month, a so-far-pretty-nice-looking M2 compiler for the Commodore Amiga 1000, a 68K based machine. Don't know if the company has any leanings in the HP direction, but the author is on the net (Leon Frenkel <ldf@killer.uucp>), so why not drop him a note? Kent, the man from xanth. His expression lit up. "Hey, you wouldn't be a dope smuggler, would you?" Rail looked confused. "Why would anyone wish to smuggle stupidity when there is so much of it readily available?" -- Alan Dean Foster, GLORY LANE