> You can always read Josh Fisher's book on the "Bulldog" compiler, I
> believe he did this work at Yale.

Are you thinking of John Ellis’s thesis:

Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures
John R. Ellis
February 1985
http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf

Fisher was Ellis’s advisor. The thesis was also published in ACM’s Doctoral Dissertation Award:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262050340/bulldog/

I believe Ellis still has a tape with his thesis software on it, but I don’t know if he’s been able to read it.