Re: Compilers for systems programming (was: A C style compiler)

jmccarty@sun1307.spd.dsccc.com (Mike McCarty)
27 May 1998 22:08:58 -0400

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From: jmccarty@sun1307.spd.dsccc.com (Mike McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 27 May 1998 22:08:58 -0400
Organization: DSC Communications Corporation
References: 98-05-017 98-05-052 98-05-060 98-05-109
Keywords: history, comment

Hewlett-Packard used SPL (Systems Programming Language) on the HP-3000
series computer. It had no (repeat NO) assembler. This was eventually
replaced with MODCAL, a modified Pascal language.


Tandem used (uses?) TAL - Tandem Applications Language. I believe that
Tandem was formed by some engineers from HP. Certainly TAL looked a
*lot* like SPL.


Did Tandem ever make their computers recognize ^S and ^Q? Sure was
annoying to see stuff scroll off the screen with no way to stop it...
[This ends this thread unless someone veers back to meatier compiler
topics. I used SPL, and I can't say I miss it. -John]
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