[HECnet] Benchmarks - WHETSTONE.C

[Steve Davidson]

GEM had nothing to do with PDP-11's.   It started out life on VMS (without the "Open").

-Steve

PS:   My wife was one of the Engineers on the GEM project.

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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Clem Cole
Sent: Tue 1/15/2013 11:57
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] Benchmarks - WHETSTONE.C




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