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.
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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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