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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
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Subject: Re: 370 C compilers
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Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 20:47:07 EST
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I used the AT&T C compiler for the 370 many years ago.  Then, it had an
I/O library that thought it was talking to OS/360, and the OS/360 calls
were being emulated by CMS.  I/O was very slow.  Make sure that the AT&T
current product has fixed this.

The group at Waterloo that is doing the 370 C compiler is the Computer
Systems Group, famous for WATFIV and similar things.  I suspect that they
will have a good compiler when they are done, but of course they're still
working on it.  

I have never heard anything good about Whitesmiths compilers - the biggest
complaint is about the nonstandard library, which makes all your "portable"
programs unusable without changing them.