jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) (05/28/87)
In a recent message to info-68k, Bob Babcock writes: >I find this hard to believe. It took 2.5 years to get a Fortran >compiler for our OS-9/68K system. As far as I know, Microware is >the only supplier of compilers, so if they don't have it, you are >stuck. This turns out not to be the case. Palo Alto Shipping Company has a FORTH package for OS-9/68000; OmegaSoft sells Pascal for OS-9/68000; Windrush (a British company) sells a language called PL/9 for OS-9/68000. I got mail the other day from Ralf Stranzenbach saying that an outfit called "Miele Datentechnik" has Modula-2 for OS-9/68000. Seikou Electronics in Japan (*not* the watchmakers--length of vowels is phonemically significant in Japanese! The "u" kana is used to indicate lengthening of various vowels, including "o", so I guess that's why Seikou spells it that way...) has Lisp09 for OS-9/6809, and possibly other languages as well. Admittedly, you'll probably never read about these things in BYTE or Dr. Dobb's :-(, but Microware does put out a software and hardware vendor directory that they'll send you on request. These are things that I have mostly just heard of--I haven't beaten on them personally, so I can't review them or vouch for their quality or anything like that. (Thus, since I don't have an opinion, I certainly can't be speaking for Microware. :-) James Jones
jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) (05/29/87)
Oops...I forgot to mention the Introl C compiler, though I don't know whether they have a 68K version. I've not used it, but I have seen some programs written in it for the 6809--there seemed to be some od- dities (#include "stdio.h" ?!?!), but it was certainly more than a Small C derivative, and they claimed to generate very fast code. James Jones, speaking only for himself, blah blah blah...