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From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: [TUHS] origins of void*
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 16:08:01 -0500	[thread overview]
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On 11/5/17 3:12 PM, Clem cole wrote:

> IIRC Leffler and Shannon had something
> for a compiler backend at Case when they started their PE port, although
> they had to do some hacking as the model they had was different from any
> previous PE (they had to deal with a number of 7 bit and 24 bit issues). I
> believe one of the attractions to the PE was they model the Research folks
> had access was 32 bits and the PDP-11 was 16.   I’ll try to ask Sam with
> what they started.

It was a Harris /6 (I don't know how much that has in common with any PE
model), Sam started with Johnson's PCC, and it was apparently a huge PITA.
I have a copy of his thesis describing the work.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/


  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-05 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-04 10:19 Paul Ruizendaal
2017-11-05  9:48 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-05 10:06 ` arnold
2017-11-05 13:20   ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-05 15:14     ` Warner Losh
2017-11-05 17:53       ` Clem cole
2017-11-05 18:29         ` Steve Simon
2017-11-05 20:12           ` Clem cole
2017-11-05 21:08             ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2017-11-05 21:38               ` Clem cole
2017-11-05 21:53             ` Steve Simon
2017-11-05 20:44   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-11-05 21:06     ` Warner Losh
2017-11-06  7:24     ` arnold
2017-11-06 15:02       ` Warner Losh
2017-11-06 21:46         ` [TUHS] origins of void* -- Apology! Steve Johnson
2017-11-06 22:18           ` Warner Losh
2017-11-07  0:25           ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-07  0:34             ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-07  0:36               ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-07  1:09             ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-07  1:55               ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 17:44               ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-08 19:56                 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 20:39                   ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 20:42                     ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 20:47                       ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 20:48                         ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 20:43                     ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 20:43                     ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 20:45                     ` Warner Losh
2017-11-09  6:33                       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-08 20:50                   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-08 21:25                 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-09  6:37                   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-09  7:14                     ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-09  7:44                       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-10 23:43                       ` [TUHS] PowerPC, bit twiddling - was " Toby Thain
2017-11-10 23:58                         ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-05 15:43 [TUHS] origins of void* Noel Chiappa
2017-11-05 16:58 ` Steve Johnson
2017-11-06  0:37 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-06  4:59 ` Steve Johnson

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