ALTOS^©: Release 2.0 is now available

Spectrum Systems' patent-pending Automated ALGOL to C++ Conversion tool (ALTOS© ) and conversion methodology is the best product currently available to convert UNISYS/MCP/ALGOL - based systems to C/C++ on UNIX or WINDOWS running on commodity servers. ALTOS© package includes the source code processing tool itself, and multi-platform C++ run-time libraries and header files to use with converted code. Converted systems run on UNIX or Windows platform.

ALTOS Release 2.0 is available immediately.

ALTOS commercial users successfully used it to convert and put in production very large, mission critical high - availability applications.

As proved by our experience of using ALTOS to convert millions of lines of complex ALGOL code, more than 99.9% of the code is converted automatically.

Experience shows that converted code is robust, and performs better than original ALGOL code. Experience also shows that the number of detected problems per line in converted software is two orders of magnitude less than in newly developed code. The entire conversion effort takes a small fraction of time and cost that would be needed to re-write the legacy system.

Just the operational savings from converting a large ALGOL system may amount to tens of millions of dollars per year.

ALTOS Release 2.0 incorporates the following major improvements:

• Improved efficiency of run-time library, and hence the code produced by ALTOS.

• Improved detection and logging of potential problems in converted code (More than 150 of problem situations are identified and reported).

• Expanded conversion capabilities (covering some rarely used ALGOL constructs).

• Providing additional features for project-specific conversion tune up (new configuration parameters for converter, the means for users to redefine/override certain functions and definitions).

• Better support for use of libraries (automatic generation of header files for libraries, automatic generation of library initialization procedures, explanation of library use in Developer's Guide)

• Better support for DCALGOL and DMALGOL constructs (queues and messages, DB interface).

• Configuration Management support for large projects (clear versioning for converter and RTL, versioning, time-stamping, and control sums for converted files, batch mode for conversion)

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