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to: Mike Bilow
from: Andrew Grillet
date: 1996-01-26 16:33:10
subject: Re: Pl/i Miscellanea

-=> On 19 Jan 96  16:29:09 Mike Bilow said to Jacob Warner <=-

 MB> Jacob Warner wrote in a message to David Noon:

 DN> There was, and might still be, a PL/I for DOS, and another for
 DN> CP/M. They were written by Dr. Gary Kildall, who wrote CP/M, and
 DN> published by his company, Digital Research Inc. Unfortunately, DRI
 DN> was bought by Novell about 2 years ago, so I doubt you could get a
 DN> copy now.

 JW> I used the CP/M version and still have it with its manuals
 JW> but have no computer now that uses CP/M. I don't believe the
 JW> DOS version was every published. From somewhere I do have a
 JW> DOS compiler for PL/I, apparently a Beta from Digital
 JW> Research, but I have no manual for it. I have successfully
 JW> recompiled for DOS a couple of programs written for the CP/M
 JW> compiler.

 MB> I can't believe I'm posting this...

 MB> Available for FReq (1:323/107) or download (+1 401 944 8498):

 MB> CPEM8010.ZIP  203K  2-28-95+ CP/M80 2.2 emulation for OS/2 and DOS

Its very reassuring to see that not everything becomes obsolete
as fast as Win96^H5 ;-)

Andrew


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