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- From: davis@csrg2.ee.iastate.edu (Jim Davis)
- Subject: Re: Looking for programming languages for 3b2
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1993Jan12.115417.20435@ms.uky.edu> <1993Jan21.041552.3500@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:58:35 GMT
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- jvn@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Julian V. Noble) writes:
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- >morgan@ms.uky.edu writes:
- >> I've been searching in vain for programming languages for the 3b2 family.
- >> CAML Light compiles, but dies with a segmentation fault. ABC compiles
- >> <with tweaking>, but dies with an EMT trap. I can't find a point of con-
- >> tact for CProlog (which ran on our 3b20), and the Icon Project doesn't
- >> answer their mail (an earlier version of Icon ran on our 3b2, but the new
- >> version(s) die(s) in compilation).
- >>
- >> In short, has anyone managed to successfully build *any* ML variant,
- >> Prolog, Icon, ISETL <or anything else, for that matter> on the 3b2?
- >> I'd like to load mine up with languages for further exploration.
- >>
- >> I'm tackling Python at the moment. I've built KCL and Perl.
- >>
- >> *Any* suggestions are welcome; please use email. I'll summarize to the net.
- >> I'm interested in just about any language; unfortunately, our budget restricts
- >> me to freeware.
- >>
- >> --Wes
- >> --
- >> MORGAN@UKCC | Wes Morgan | ...!ukma!ukecc!morgan
- >> morgan@ms.uky.edu | University of Kentucky | morgan@wuarchive.wustl.edu
- >> morgan@engr.uky.edu | Lexington,Kentucky USA | JWMorgan@dockmaster.ncsc.mil
- >> Mailing list for AT&T StarServer S/E - starserver-request@engr.uky.edu
-
- >Surely the 3b2 is a 68000 machine, if my aging memory has not
- >played tricks. There are plenty of 68K Forths available in public
- >domain that could doubtless be ported to the 3b2, or metacompiled
- >or whatever.
-
- .....
-
- The 3B2 uses the WE3200 processor and is not all that easy to mechanically
- generate code for. There is definitely a lack of *working* compilers out
- there for the 3B2. For one reason or another, it has always been hard to
- find ports of interesting software to the 3B2, and this seems to be worse
- since AT&T decided to make 3B2 users upgrade to a different processor to run
- current versions of UNIX (4.2). Porting software now usually includes a lot
- of hacking to get it to run under the older version of 3B2 UNIX.
-
- Good luck! There are a lot of us in the same position!
-
- Jim Davis
- davis@iastate.edu
-
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