[TUHS] v7 upgrade

[TUHS] v7 upgrade

[Al Kossow]

There were ports of PCC to the 8086, Z8000, and 68000 done by
MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. This might be a more
historically correct place to start.

[TUHS] v7 upgrade

[M E Leypold @ labnet]

Al Kossow writes:
 > 
 > There were ports of PCC to the 8086, Z8000, and 68000 done by
 > MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. This might be a more
 > historically correct place to start.


I alway wondered, wether the source of these ports is available
somewhere. I bet it isn't.

Regards -- Markus

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[Mike Haertel]

I'm fairly sure I once saw the MIT 68k port of PCC
on a Usenix tape.  No idea which one, but probably
around 1982 or so.

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[Warren Toomey]

In article by Mike Haertel:
> I'm fairly sure I once saw the MIT 68k port of PCC
> on a Usenix tape.  No idea which one, but probably
> around 1982 or so.

I just looked in the Usenix tapes in the Unix Archive, no luck. The closest
I could find is the directory delaware/cwru.v7/pcc in the file
Applications/Spencer_Tapes/del.tar.gz, but this looks like a PDP-11
version and not a port.

	Warren

[TUHS] Re: pcc ports

[Warren Toomey]

In article by M E Leypold @ labnet:
> Al Kossow writes:
>  > There were ports of PCC to the 8086, Z8000, and 68000 done by
>  > MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. This might be a more
>  > historically correct place to start.
> I alway wondered, wether the source of these ports is available
> somewhere. I bet it isn't.
> Regards -- Markus

Al has sent in the PCC ports mentioned to the Unix Archive. They are
now available on the primary site at both:

   http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Portable_CC/
   ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Applications/Portable_CC/

The mirror sites should pick these up soon.

Thanks Al!
	Warren

[TUHS] Re: pcc ports

[Christian Groessler]

On 08/10/2002 04:54:16 PM MST Al Kossow wrote:
>
>> I see there no version for the Z8000 but for the 16032. Was there
>> really a Z8000 version?
>
>http://www.lcs.mit.edu/about/architects.html
>
>"Fortunately for Ward, by 1980 the community of computer researchers
>had grown from a few labs to a few dozen---and for the most part, the  
>research community was moving in one particular direction: UNIX, the
>castrated Multics operating system that had been spawned from Bell
>Labs. UNIX was loved because it was small and portable, which meant
>that it would be easy for Ward to get the operating system running on
>the NuMachine. The group got the UNIX source code from Bell Labs and
>ported the operating system to three different microprocessors: the
>Zilog Z8000, the Intel 8086, and the Motorola 68000. Although it
>would not be clear for several years, by building a single-user
>computer with a bitmapped display, a network interface, and a
>powerful microprocessor, Ward's group had just created one of the
>world's first UNIX workstations.
>"

Hmm, but where is it? :-)

regards,
chris

[TUHS] Re: pcc ports

[Al Kossow]

> I see there no version for the Z8000 but for the 16032. Was there 
> really a Z8000 version? 

http://www.lcs.mit.edu/about/architects.html

"Fortunately for Ward, by 1980 the community of computer researchers had grown from a few labs to a few dozen---and for the most part, the research community was moving in one particular direction: UNIX, the castrated Multics operating system that had been spawned from Bell Labs. UNIX was loved because it was small and portable, which meant that it would be easy for Ward to get the operating system running on the NuMachine. The group got the UNIX source code from Bell Labs and ported the operating system to three different microprocessors: the Zilog Z8000, the Intel 8086, and the Motorola 68000. Although it would not be clear for several years, by building a single-user computer with a bitmapped display, a network interface, and a powerful microprocessor, Ward's group had just created one of the world's first UNIX workstations.
"

[TUHS] Re: pcc ports

[cpg]

On 08/10/2002 10:09:54 AM ZE10 Warren Toomey wrote:
>
>In article by M E Leypold @ labnet:
>> Al Kossow writes:
>>  > There were ports of PCC to the 8086, Z8000, and 68000 done by
>>  > MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. This might be a more
>>  > historically correct place to start.
>> I alway wondered, wether the source of these ports is available
>> somewhere. I bet it isn't.
>> Regards -- Markus
>
>Al has sent in the PCC ports mentioned to the Unix Archive. They are
>now available on the primary site at both:
>
>   http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Portable_CC/
>   ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Applications/Portable_CC/

I see there no version for the Z8000 but for the 16032. Was there
really a Z8000 version?

regards,
chris