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From: josh@v1.UUCP (Josh Knight)
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Subject: Re: Re: C compiler for IBM /370 wanted
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> I know of two C compilers for the IBM/370:

There are at least two more:

(1. There is a C compiler from Waterloo for IBM 370's.  We're still in
the process of getting it, but I've seen favorable commentary on VMSHARE
(an electronic conference about VM/CMS on TYMSHARE connected with the
IBM users group, SHARE).  Karl Geiger (karl@uscvm.BITNET) provided the
following information in <6142@brl-tgr.ARPA> in this group a while
ago, the address is:

	WATCOM
	Computer Systems Group
	University of Waterloo
	158 University Avenue
	Ontario, Canada N2L 3E9

It costs $1800/year with a 50% educational discount available.

(2. Whitesmiths apparently also sells a 370 C compiler for about $5K.
The reviews on this beast have been mixed (I've never seen it).

> 	1. A PCC from Bell Labs which we run here at B.U.
> 	Call Bell for availability. My suspicion is you would
> 	have to have e or essentially be eligible for a UNIX
> 	source license (the fact that it is a 370 does *not*
> 	exclude this, speak to bell.)

I believe the 370 C compiler license is separate from any Unix
license.  Don't remember the price.
  
> float *_sin(x) ;
> #define sin(x) (*_sin(x))
> 
> no big problem, just a nuisance (more a documentation problem
> as you explain these workarounds over and over again.)

I would call this a bug in the compiler.  I suspect anyone who tried
to write scientific/engineering code would as well.

The opinions expressed (or implied) are my own, not those of my employer.

		Josh Knight, IBM T.J. Watson Research
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