From: Christian Dreier via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Circuit design tool mentioned in AT&T Unix promotion
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 06:36:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <854dfba0-6cf2-57a4-3995-c57571205d1f@googlemail.com> (raw)
Hello there,
I recently watched an old Unix promotion video by AT&T on YouTube (AT&T
Archives: The UNIX Operating System: https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0) and
they mention a design tool for integrated circuits (apparently named
L-Gen or lgen; timestamped link: https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0?t=1284).
Part of this software is a language implemented with YACC that appears
to describe the behavior of digital logic, like modern hardware
description languages, i.e. Verilog and VHDL.
Does anyone have information about this, in particular:
- Documentation
- Which projects were realized with this?
- Source code, if possible
I asked this question on retrocomputing.stackexchange.com (see
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/26301/26615) but so far there
is no satisfying answer. A "Circuit Design Language" (CDL) is mentioned
and there is some good information about it but it has another syntax
(as shown in the video vs. the documentation about CDL) and apparently
another purpose (description of board wiring vs. logic behavior).
Best regards,
Christian
next reply other threads:[~2023-02-10 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-10 5:36 Christian Dreier via TUHS [this message]
2023-02-10 12:56 ` [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2023-02-10 13:20 ` Clem Cole
2023-02-10 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2023-02-10 15:22 ` Heinz Lycklama
2023-02-10 19:08 ` Lawrence Stewart
2023-02-11 8:06 ` Christian Dreier via TUHS
2023-02-13 9:22 ` Christian Dreier via TUHS
2023-02-19 21:31 ` Christian Dreier via TUHS
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