From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 16:08:01 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] origins of void* In-Reply-To: References: <33ABE931-7E70-4C99-B289-2D3F6BDA1EBE@planet.nl> <201711051006.vA5A6BO2032436@freefriends.org> <09628F7B-28C9-4F72-91E8-665AE5BF6425@quintile.net> Message-ID: 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/