Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!icdoc!ist!itcp From: itcp@ist.CO.UK (News reading a/c for itcp) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Software Distribution Message-ID: <345@istop.ist.CO.UK> Date: 26 Sep 88 08:28:42 GMT References: <650004@hpclscu.HP.COM> Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, UK Lines: 20 From article <650004@hpclscu.HP.COM>, by shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni): >>[I write ..] >> cannot see it being commercial. That is, I could not imagine a >> Company that produces the IL definition and sufficient code generators >> and compiler front ends to establish a momentum making a profit. :-(. > > Well, surprise, surprise. Both HP and MIPS use such an intermediate language > for their RISC processors. And at least one of them is making a profit :-). > (Disclaimer: I have no information on the other. No flames..) So there! > -- > Shankar. 1. What I am interested in is a many (languages) to many (processors) Intermediate Language, and one made public for use by procesor or language designers. 2. Both MIPS and HP are basically hardware vendors, sure they may make a profit, but on their compiler operation? Tom