[HECnet] Benchmarks - WHETSTONE.C

[Clem Cole]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
The PDP-11 C compiler is a much later product than any of the stuff you talk about here. It's something DEC did in the 90s.

Fair enough - long after   I was paying much attention. Do you know if it was part of GEM?    The GEM suite allowed N front ends, and Y back-ends.


As for PL/1 on 16 bit machines - it was done, particularly with subset compilers.    Again, I lost interest in it in the early 1980s.   PL/C was Cornell's version and a number of things like Intel's PL/M for the 8080 appeared, Stanfords PL/360 etc, all show it possible,

The question really was the desire and how far you wanted to go.

Clem