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From: bill@cosi.UUCP (Bill Michaelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Porting IBM Series/1 stuff to UNIX
Summary: EDL?  Wow.  Blast from the past.
Keywords: Series/1 EDX EDL porting software translation
Message-ID: <264@cosi.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 02:54:18 GMT
References: <452@ubbpc.UUCP>
Organization: COS, Inc., Lawrenceville, NJ
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In article <452@ubbpc.UUCP>, wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) writes:
> 
>  Does anybody have a good way (or even a bad way) to port application
> programs from an IBM Series/1 EDX system to UNIX Sys V rel 2?
> 
>  The programming language should be fairly portable, but the EDL might be
> awkward to convert.

One (perhaps bizarre) solution might be to write an EDX emulator for UNIX.
EDL is a fairly simple-minded language, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

Another alternative, since EDL was orignally implemented through a set of
macros, would be to replace the macros with ones that generate C code, and
run your EDL source through the Series/1 assembler.  This is probably a bit
easier than my first suggestion, and has the advantage of not having to
run interpretively on the target system.

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