Thanks Jeff,

At last somebody at HP has admitted that SPL II does exist. Back in the days
when MPE/V was top-dog there was a free utility (can't remember who wrote
it) that told you what language a compiled program had been writen in. One
of the languages on it's list was SPL II. I was mostly coding in SPL at the
time so during the next support call to HP I mentioned it. His response was
'Never heard of it. Nothing to do with HP.'. Was it only for internal use or
was it supposed to replace SPL?

regards,
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: VANCE,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex1) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 November 2001 15:50
To: 'Robert Mills'; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] IBM as an option - IA-64 vs. PA-RISC


Hi all,

> Prior to MPE/XL (later called MPE/iX) being released, MPE and
> its utilities was written in SPL. Think that some of the very
> low-level stuff might have  been written in assembler/machine code.

Most of MPE/iX OS is written in Pascal using some OS extensions.
There is, of course, assembly code for the lower level, and very
performance sensitive routines.  We also have some C code in the
POSIX library and some of the new IO code we "borrowed" from HP-UX.
There is still CM code, mostly SPL but also a bit of Modcal. And,
we have some PSPL and SPL II code mixed in as well.  No COBOL, as
far as I know, and Wirt may be disappointed to learn that there
is no BASIC V code either :)

FWIW,
 Jeff Vance, CSY

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