dan@bbncd@sri-unix.UUCP (09/13/83)
From: Dan Franklin <dan@bbncd> You might try Translation Systems, Inc. They produce PL/I compilers on contract to computer manufacturers; most of the current minicomputer PL/I compilers originally came from TSI. They could tell you who they've sold any 68000 compilers to. (They are also branching out into other languages, and are planning a rather extensive set of compilers for the NS16032.) The address is Translation Systems, Inc. 530 Atlantic Ave Boston, Ma.
lou@ucb-vax@sfucmpt.UUCP (09/15/83)
Article-I.D.: sfucmpt.155
Does anyone know of a compiler for PL/1 (or a subset thereof) that
generates code for the 68000/68010? Preferably running under Unix for a
SUN workstation. Any pointers would be much appreciated. We're trying to
convince our University that they should teach undergraduate computing using
a network of SUNs and availability of PL/1 turns out to be an issue.
Lou Hafer
Computing Science, Simon Fraser Univ.
{utcsrgv,uw-beaver}!ubc-vision!sfucmpt!louguy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) (09/23/83)
One of TSI's customers for their 68K PL/I compiler is Stratus, the makers of
the multi-68000 failsafe system (cleverly done; they have two 68K's running
in parallel, doing the same computations in lockstep and comparing, I assume,
their pinouts. You don't have to write special failsoft software. If one
board with a pair of 68K's - four 68K's, actually, two for the OS and two
for applications - finds a miscompare, it gives up and lets another board
whose two 68K's have been executing the same application in lockstep with
this board's 68K's take over.). Interestingly enough, the Stratus command
language looks suspiciously like that of another OS written in PL/I. This
is not too surprising, considering that the principal author of the Multics
PL/I compiler, the principal author of the TSI PL/I compiler, and one of the
founders of Stratus are the same person - Robert Freiburghouse. DEC's VMS
PL/I compiler is also based on the TSI compiler.
Guy Harris
{seismo,mcnc,we13,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!guy