I believe the PL8 compilers come from the same family of internal IBM development languages that include PL/S and PL/X. Other that for a very brief time in the mid 1990s, when ISVs could license a version of PL/X, IBM has never made these compilers available outside of IBM. A couple of SHARE ago, an IBM-er gave a session on the PL/X language, which might still be found on the SHARE web site.
DJ ----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM Journal of R&D article on z9 millicode Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:40:41 -0500 > On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:30 PM, McKown, John wrote: > > > I'm finding it interesting. Especially that the "second > > firmware level" > > is written in a combination of PL8(?) and GCC. The new > > development environment is LINUX!?! instead of VM. > > > > > http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/511/axnix.html > > Is PL8 available? > > A lot of talk of "toward an open standard firmware" but I > am not so far successful in finding a place I can actually > download a compiler, or indeed see the language specs. > > Adam > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive > access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
