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From: "Michael Kjörling" <e5655f30a07f@ewoof.net>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: On the uniqueness of DMR's C compiler
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 11:09:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33ca504d-5167-4796-a277-b9d2865b7fb1@home.arpa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18efd14f-4da6-4771-ad6a-901c6cb6105d@planet.nl>

On 7 May 2024 21:59 +0100, from pnr@planet.nl (Paul Ruizendaal):
> It seems to me that these papers rather understate the importance of
> generating good quality code. As far as I can tell, BCPL and BLISS
> came close, but were too large to run on a PDP-11 and only existed
> as cross-compilers.

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/BCPL/index.html#York
appears to indicate that by 1974 there existed a native PDP-11 (/40 or
/45) BCPL compiler which ran under RSX-11.

--
Michael Kjörling                     🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
“Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-08 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-07 20:59 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2024-05-07 22:07 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2024-05-08  9:35   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2024-05-08 13:12     ` Rob Pike
2024-05-08 15:51     ` Clem Cole
2024-05-08 16:07       ` Jon Forrest
2024-05-08 17:49         ` Tom Perrine
2024-05-08 17:05       ` Adam Sampson
2024-05-08 17:45       ` Al Kossow
2024-05-08 18:12         ` Clem Cole
2024-05-08 18:12           ` Clem Cole
2024-05-09  1:27           ` Lawrence Stewart
2024-05-31 12:00       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2024-05-31 12:21         ` Peter Yardley
2024-05-08 11:09 ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2024-05-09 20:40 ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2024-05-09 20:57   ` Al Kossow
2024-05-08 18:29 Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-10 17:28 ` Paul Winalski
2024-05-11  9:16   ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-11 13:42   ` G. Branden Robinson
     [not found] <171519201646.4052234.694570138790187562@minnie.tuhs.org>
2024-05-09  3:39 ` Paul McJones
2024-05-09  3:46   ` Warner Losh
     [not found] <171535904627.4052234.5321502833323676423@minnie.tuhs.org>
2024-05-10 18:55 ` Paul McJones

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