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From: pb@nascom.UUCP (Peter Bergh)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Software Distribution
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Date: 26 Sep 88 13:35:42 GMT
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To contribute further to ethe existence proffof, Sperry (now part of Unisys) have
develoipped a set of compilers that (when I last was involved) comprised C, cCobol,
Fortran (for two architectures), Padscal, and Plus (a Sperry systems-programming
language) for the Sperruy Univadcc 1100 series and that used a reasonably prtortable
intermediate language.  The main design goal for the intermediate language, though,
was not to make it portable between machine architectures but to make it handle
a large subset of the currently existing languages (it handles PL/I but not all
of Ada).