From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 06:46:44 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-10 UNIX?
In-Reply-To: <20170918211419.C4C3B18C0B2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (Noel Chiappa's
 message of "Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:14:19 -0400 (EDT)")
References: <20170918211419.C4C3B18C0B2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <7wd16n423v.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>

Noel Chiappa writes:
> > That makes sense if it's '73.  That would be the Ritchie front end
> > and v5/v6 syntax as I remember=20
>
> Here:
>
>   http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/specpub.php?id=717
>
> is the TR describing it (well, this report covers one by him for the
> Honeywell 6000 series, but IIRC it's the same compiler).

It mentions a PDP-10 version on page 5.

> I didn't read the whole thing slowly, but glancing quickly at it, it
> sounds like it's possible a 'from scratch' thing?

That's my impression.  Various places claim this compiler was an
inspiration for PCC.  Also, Snyder was the one to suggest a preprocessor
and the && and || operators.

I'm in touch with someone who has the source code for the compiler, but
we can't release it to the public without consent from Alan.