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From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson)
Newsgroups: net.decus
Subject: Re: RT-11 Compiler Advice Wanted
Message-ID: <1456@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 12:11:06 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 12:11:06 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Mar-85 16:17:16 EST
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Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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Summary: 

We use OMSI Pascal from Oregon Software and Whitesmiths C on our RT-11
systems.  I don't know much about the DECUS C compiler, but from what I've
been told, Whitesmiths is better.  I'm sure Whitesmiths C is better supported,
and because it's been around a lot longer it is probably more bug-free.
One problem with Whitesmiths that may not be a factor is that the generated
code will not run on a machine without EIS or better.  (Actually, you can get
the compiler to produce non-EIS code, but it won't do you any good because
they don't give you a non-EIS library.)  I'm not sure whether this is the
case with the DECUS C compiler as well.

OMSI Pascal seems pretty good, but a lot of our users seem to have trouble
figuring out how to do file I/O with it.

By the way, we are heavy users of RT-11 here at DCIEM, and I'm the one in
charge of looking after it all.  Attempts to establish an RT-11 news group
a couple of years ago failed, but if anyone wants to talk RT-11, I'm always
willing.
-- 
Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto  (416) 635-2073
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