I remember a conversation with Valadimer(sp) of Vesoft years back. He left
me with the impression that the O/S was written in Pascal.
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From: John Penney [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 8:28 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] IBM as an option - IA-64 vs. PA-RISC
Pascal IIRC
Regards
>>> "Wayne R. Boyer" <[log in to unmask]> 11/30/01 05:30AM >>>
In a message dated 11/29/01 4:33:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
> the millions of lines of hardware dependent MPE operating system source
code
> is the problem.
>
Does anyone really have an understanding of what language(s) the MPE source
code is written in? Assuming something such as 'C' then with an IA-64 'C'
compiler, the source code would compile fairly well. A lot of what we think
of as MPE are just straightforward utilities that call intrinsics that deal
with more hardware oriented issues. How hard could it be to have programs
like FCOPY, DBUTIL, FTP, FORMSPEC, etc compile into IA-64 object code if you
have the appropriate IA-64 compiler for the language?
Wayne Boyer
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