From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] pdp-11 assembly as a hll?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:43:34 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802141736190.5573@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo8VuodXcYL5TcybAn7f0npH056DCoXuTkwbwuj-9seBA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Warner Losh wrote:
> I was wondering what it would take to convert the v6/v7 basic program
> into something that can be run today.
Hmmm... If it were C-generated then it would be (somewhat) easy, but it's
hand-written and hand-optimised... You'd have to do some functional
analysis on it e.g. what does this routine do, etc.
> Its 2128 lines. It doesn't have that fun instruction in it :)
I know! Say ~2,000 lines, say ~100 people on this list, distributed
computing to the rescue! That's only 20 lines each, so it ought to be a
piece of cake :-)
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-14 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 1:08 Warner Losh
2018-02-14 3:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-14 5:12 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-14 6:43 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-02-14 7:27 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-14 7:28 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-14 16:03 ` Paul Winalski
2018-02-14 16:56 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-14 8:41 Paul Ruizendaal
2018-02-14 13:15 Noel Chiappa
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