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From: tpoind@skipy (Tom Poindexter)
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Subject: Re: PL/I compiler
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.140255.5798@cherokee.uswest.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 14:02:55 GMT
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In article <1991Jun06.124251.241@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>dww@math.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes:
>>PL/I? On an MS-DOS or CP/M (!!!) platform with close to full
>>implementation? Well, the beast compiler we used to use on our

comment: remember that long ago, in a place far away, Fortran & Cobol were compiled on
cpus with 4096 words of memory (not kilobytes or megabytes, just 4,096).

>
>I had a PL/1 compiler for MS-DOS about 5 years ago.  I'll look around
>my basement to see if I can come up with the manufacturer (I know it
>was distributed by IBM).
>

It was distributed by Digital Research.  The compiler first came out for 8080 in CP/M,
then migrated to 8086 & MS-DOS.  It was *quite* buggy;  I don't think DR ever released
any version beyond 1.0.  The compiler supposedly supported PL/I ANSI Subset G.

There is some sort of PL/I language *interpreter* on Simtel20.  Look for
RUNPLI or some such.  

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