Jeff Vance wrote:

> 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 :)

Now we have discovered the *real* reason MPE is not too portable...

It's not written in Cobol - the universal business language that
runs on almost any computer ever made.

Now where did I put that GNU Cobol compiler...

Duane "if you can't do it in Cobol it's not worth doing" Percox

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