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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services)
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Subject: Re: C on IBM main frames
Message-ID: <479@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 11:27:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  4 11:27:15 1984
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Waterloo has a C compiler that works on VM/CMS and will be available
shortly for the IBM PC, MVS, and other computers.  It is written in WSL,
a machine independent systems development language and is nearly compatible
with Unix C.  The differences are in the types of some of the I/O library
routines, but this is always a difficult area in portable C programs.
I have ported Unix C programs to VM/CMS using Waterloo C and they have compiled,
but the I/O routines needed changing.  Also the math library works in
double precision always. 

Herb Chong, BASc
Computer Consultant 
Department of Computing Services
University of Waterloo

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