On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:11:49 -0400, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, that clarifies a bunch. Let me ask the hard question, > then: what is this for, other than a very interesting exercise? You tell me. You don't see any market for offloading processing from the mainframe to the PC? And not necessarily the PC - if you're happy to cross-compile, you could use an ARM processor. Including literally using a smartphone to do your EBCDIC data processing, especially with something like PdAndro (see pdos.org for link to that). I personally am not familiar with "the market" (I have more interesting things to do than market research). So I have no idea what possibilities may exist in the real world. I just saw a theoretical barrier to switching machines being a data conversion effort. You no longer need to convert your data in order to offload processing. And nor do you need to do emulation. You do need to write your application in a portable language though. But you can probably get around that too. Just not as elegant as C90. Nothing is. Including C99 etc. They did a really good job back then. BTW, the US government is giving away the standard for free: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub160.pdf Including the Rationale. Called C89, not C90, then. But I was waiting with bated breath to see if ISO was going to change anything. Other than renumber sections, nothing was changed. You can still buy it too (or you could a couple of years ago anyway - I bought one), from Australian Standards. BFN. Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
