The Hercules community is pleased to announce the availability of two new freely-available operating systems that provide 31-bit programming capability.
Load modules can be developed and tested on these environments and the binaries work unchanged (and without requiring special alternate APIs or support modules etc) on their z/OS and z/VM big brothers. Both are available from: http://mvs380.sourceforge.net An example of such a 31-bit program is GCCMVS, the GCC C compiler (fully C90 compliant) ported to MVS and CMS, and it comes bundled with the operating systems. It is also available as a separate product suitable for direct loading on z/OS and z/VM. See here: http://gccmvs.sourceforge.net There's also a stack of useful utilities there, e.g. diff3 (a 3-way diff - one of the great breakthroughs in computer science). These utilities have been precompiled as part of MVS/380 and VM/380. The port of GCC is dependent on the public domain (not GPL) C runtime library PDPCLIB (also fully C90 compliant). That is available here: http://pdos.sourceforge.net Other utilities include bwBASIC, BREXX, bison, sed, flex, m4, patch, minizip. There are also specialized batch files to assist in targetting the mainframe platforms from a PC. The S/380 platforms have quite a lot of development activity taking place (e.g. a DFDSS-compatible dump program) to push these platforms forward. Come and join us over at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-os380 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
