From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:43:34 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] pdp-11 assembly as a hll? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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."