From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,bce3b9508a11b825,start X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!fdn.fr!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: invalid@domain.invalid Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Advocacy: Do you have an Ada 83 compiler for IBM's MVS? Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:46:00 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: oVoLcwCw6wNdzplSVnFQUg.user.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:lgIPbCixoLQUW/vi3lg6ZZ+eUo8= X-Real-Email: blackiron79 at yahoo dot co dot uk Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7726 Date: 2009-08-13T11:46:00+00:00 List-Id: Hello Ada Community! There is an outstanding Ada advocacy opportunity and a chance for some good free PR if you have an Ada 83 compiler with an IBM MVS (24 bit addressing, S/370 mode) host/target. As you may be aware, some time ago IBM Corporation released their MVS 3.8J operating system into the public domain. This is a very old operating system dating from about 1979-1981 which a community of thousands of hobbyists are now actively using for learning and development under the Hercules mainframe emulator (http://www.hercules-390.org). Hercules is not a production platform because IBM has not permitted licensed copies of operating systems to run on the Hercules emulator. Furthermore, the freely available version of MVS 3.8J the hobbyists use is not capable of running modern workloads since it uses an architecture which is 3 generations old and lacks many important technical features essential for today's enterprise computing. There should be no concern that donating an Ada compiler to the community or making one freely available will have any economic impact to your business (except for the new fans of the Ada language you'll make who may well wind up encouraging their employers to look into buying your products!) Compilers which are available today on MVS 3.8J include IBM's assembler, FORTRAN, COBOL, ALGOL, and PL/I compilers, all dating from the 1960-1980 period. And Ada 83 compiler would be an outstanding addition and a great way to introduce this classic, foundation HLL to many people who have no prior experience with Ada, as well as providing people who used Ada from the beginning an opportunity to enjoy programming with it again on a vintage platform. If you have an Ada 83 compiler that runs on IBM's 24 bit operating systems you have a wonderful opportunity to expose your company, products, and the Ada language to an enthusiastic community of developers, systems programmers, and students, located around the world. Please respond to the newsgroup or see the posting headers for contact information. Thank you! (I am not affiliated with IBM or the Hercules project.)