From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:06:29 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] speaking of early C compilers In-Reply-To: References: <0F0B9BFC06289346B88512B91E55670D2F86@EXCHANGE> <2c9c14d6fd7d2e98ae0bc98d7f593ff9.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: yes: http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3241&context=compsci I had a 60 running v7 years later. we also toyed with adding CSV/CRET but never did it because we got an 11/70 > On Oct 27, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Clem Cole wrote: >> >> [...] because the CMU 11/40E had special CSV/CRET microcode which we >> could not use on the 11/34. > > The 40E had microcode whilst the vanilla 40 didn't? I thought only the 60 > was micro-programmable; I never did get around to implementing CSV/CRET on > our 60 (Digital had a bunch of them when a contract with a publishing > house fell through). > >> The other things for those days, that has not yet been brought up was >> the famous "NUXI" problem. The PDP-11 byte swapping was idemic in the >> code. When the first ports to system that were not the same >> "endianess" came about - you would find strange things in memory. > > Reminds me of the time when I used 2-char constants in case statements; my > boss yelled at me. > > -- > Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server." > http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there) > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: