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From: ronb@dmsace.dms.oz (Ron Baxter)
Newsgroups: aus.followup,comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: New-S info wanted
Keywords: New-S Sequent
Message-ID: <4712@natmlab.dms.oz>
Date: 28 Jan 89 04:18:29 GMT
References: <5709@wolfen.cc.uow.oz>
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Organization: CSIRO, Div. of Maths and Stats, Lindfield, Aust.
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In article <5709@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Steve Cliffe) writes:
>Some time ago I tried to get S going on our Sequent. .....
>.....
>Since then, New-S has come along and Sequent's Fortran compiler (actually
>SVS) has become more C compatible, so before we order New-S has anyone out 
>there had any experience with it - preferably on Sequents.

	I know nothing of Sequents, but have had experience with
	old and new S on a range of hardware.  Getting S going
	using compilers different from the ususal SV or BSD f77
	and cc can be quite a bit of work.  New S still has Fortran
	and C interwoven.  They have cleaned up many of the
	definitions used in the 'm4' phase so that it easier to
	adapt to other compilers.

	New S is now one large process and does not fork off
	sub-processes for graphics devices etc.

	One feature of new S that may be difficult to implement
	on other hardware is dynamic loading.  This allows a user
	to compile his/her favourite fortran/C subroutine and
	the "dynamically load" the sub.o file into S and access
	it from S functions.

	If you already have an S licence (old S) then getting the
	new S tape is cheap ($800 US I think).


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