Solaris Pascal on Linux?

Wim Borgers asks: "In our company we're trying to get rid of an old Sun machine before it lease expires and has to be replaced by another one (very soon). Since they are very expensive, we would like to use a Linux box instead. After weeks of trying to convert the Pascal programs, we finally reached a point where we think that it is impossible to migrate the machine: apparently the dialect of Sun Pascal is very specific and cannot be recompiled in Linux without complete rewriting the code... (and we lack the time to make such an undertaking). I think we better save those resources to convert to more decent working programs in the middle to long term. Does anyone have an idea how to get it these things run anyway?"

"The department that uses the machine does a lot of text processing using older Pascal and Cobol programs that were developed during the past years in Sun Workshop. Since we would like to start using XML, and Pascal is less used these days, we also have some viable reasons not to invest in a new Sun machine.

Instead of using Linux we also considered using the free Solaris binaries, but the (older) workshop we need is not released on Intel, but only SPARC and the new Forte programs didn't include the necessary compiler.

Eternal thanks to any who can help us!"

Comments

the buyouts

[ReidMaynard]

of leased computers are usually pretty cheap.

We had dozens of 3 year leased Sun Ultra 20's and the buyout was only about $400 per at the end of the lease.

It sounds like just buying the box would be the least expensive & least painfull solution.

As an interesting note, they were all leased with 20" sun monitors, and the leasing company didn't even want them back.