Forgotten that paper. Those are not the only authors of the subsystem BTW. Just those that wrote the paper :-) In a where are they now ... David S. Blickstein - left Intel about 6 years ago and moved to Colorado to be a Volleyball instructor I heard; Peter W. Craig - I've lost track where he is; Caroline S. Davidson - sits *across* the hall, still hacking on the runtime; R. Neil Faiman, Jr. - one of the compiler folks that will retired in 2 weeks but was working on HTML5 until then; Kent D. Glossop - sits two rows down the hall and is still hack on the compiler back end - although is currently *working* adding parallel ops to LLVM; Richard B. Grove - retired about 5 years ago and I see a few times a year [his son is one was the designer of Real-Time Java system at IBM Yorktown - just as much of a star as his Dad], Steven O. Hobbs - retired about 7 years ago although is still doing compiler work at MUMPS and comes up for lunch with us old folks every so often, and William B. Noyce - I've lost track where he is.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Armistead, Jason BIS < [email protected]> wrote: > Out of curiosity, I did a bit of Googling, and found a link to the > following Digital Technical Journal article from 1992 that explains GEM in > detail. It also gives the biographies of a number of the key players > involved with GEM – I wonder how many Clem still has sitting in his office > these days. > > > > > http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/DEC/DTJ/DTJ808/DTJ808PF.PDF > > > > Jason > > > > *From:* Simh [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Clem > Cole > *Sent:* Tuesday, 7 July 2015 4:17 PM > *To:* Henry Bent > *Cc:* [email protected]; Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm > *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Booting the vax750 simulator. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Henry Bent <[email protected]> wrote: > > It appears that it comes with VAX C, which is part of the base Ultrix > packages. > > > > That makes sense. As I said, I'm would suspect it was driven by VAX > Fortran project, but once that was done any of the DEC languages would have > used it since GEM tried to be common for all. > > > > GEM was an amazing project. N front ends, Y backends. A compiler suite > designed to last for 20 years. Needed to span a 16 to 64 bits, parallel, > vectorization etc. N included Fortran, Bliss, C, C++, Pascal, Cobol, > Ada, Basic and I believe others now forgotten. Y was PDP-11, Vax, MIPS, > Alpha, Itanium, x86, 68K, Prism and again probably others which I have > forgotten. > > > > Clem > > > > BTW: Intel owns all of the IP and the few members of the GEM team that > have not yet retired (we will lose Mr. Fortran on July 15). IMO: Sadly, > guess which compiler technology Intel uses, something developed locally to > benchmark the x86 or GEM? As Rich Grove (father of GEM) once said to me, > the DEC DNA lives, and has slowly been injected into the Intel technology. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >
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