On Tue, 16 Jan 2024, Joe Monk wrote:
Yes, Rand released it. It wasnt?even an IBM product, Rand?reverse engineered
the compiler from available docs, and sold it for $100.
IBM made them go retrieve every?single tape and destroy it, and promise to
never again distribute it, in exchange for not being sued.
Joe
Yep, understood.
Buf half a century ticked over the clock, isn't it?
Impossible to think may be different in our days,
at the beginning of XXI century?
MVT and MVS are now just toys for hobbists, not
OS for real iron.
This is something I can't really understand, it
looks more like ... what the word in english? ... stubborness?
obstinacy? ... please suggest to an italian speaker the
correct translation for "puntiglio" in english ... than
a real legal issue.
Maybe IBM may have changed its mind?
Peppe.
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 9:55?PM Charles Bailey <txlogicguy@...> wrote:
I found this post quite interesting.? I wrote lots of PL/AS code
in the
1980's and 90's when I worked for IBM.? I still have a lot of
the code
but have no way to compile it with TK4-.? I had never heard of
Rand's
RL/S until today.? Did Rand ever release their RL/S compiler to
the
public?? It would be fun to see my PL/AS code could be adapted
to
compile with RL/S.
Charles Bailey
On 2024-01-15 05:24, Giuseppe Vitillaro wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2024, Joe Monk wrote:
>
>> Peppe,
>> "Still curious about how this game is played, being METALC,
GCC or
>> even PL/S, if even such compiler would be available, would
>> make any difference?"
>> PL/S hasnt?been used in decades. The modern version is
PL/X-390. :)
>
> Apologies, I'm not "updated" on PL languages ;-)
> I'm more a C/UNIX guy as you know.
>
> Any way, I would be glad anyway to have access to the Rand's
PL/S
> compiler under MVS3.8j, if there is a way to use it on
> an ancient platform.
>
> For what I've seen, it would be a nice way to gain a better
> understanding of this game, although I'm a little bit aged
> to become as proficient as I'm in C using PL/I like languages.
>
> But for what I'm reading here
>
>? ?
>
> this compiler may be defined ... a "chimera"?
>
> Weird IBM in the XXI century is still so jelaous
> about this compiler when IBM itself seems moving in the C
direction
> with METALC.
>
> Or I misunderstand and PL/X-390 is still the main road
> under Z/OS?
>
> Peppe.
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