I?m trying to find ALGOL68RS for VAX/VMS...
...just say in?
On 14 Mar 2020, at 19:22, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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Slightly off topic, but I would love to find the ALGOL68C port for TOPS-20. I believe it
may have been on a DECUS tape, but I don?t know and I have never been able to find it.
Does anyone by any chance have a copy anywhere?
Regards
Rob
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of
Thomas DeBellis
Sent: 14 March 2020 16:05
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] C compiler for TOPS-10
Your memory jives with mine; I do seem to remember Tops-10 having a C compiler. Nothing
else, I'm afraid.
Once I get a few more things straightened out with disk allocation, I am going to continue
my quest to download all the DECUS tapes for Tops-10 and Tops-20 and put them on a dual
RP07 structure(s). Lots of interesting stuff. If I stumble across it, I'll let you
know.
Tops-20 has two C compilers that I am aware of. KCC, which is natively hosted and gnu,
which will compile for the PDP-10. I don't know if the gnu compiler is natively
hosted; another thing I've been meaning to look at.
The integration between C and Tops-10 would be interesting. Make isn't directly
possible as there are no forks. I guess you'd write a bunch of files into TMPCOR and
then go make COMPIL swallow them.
I always thought it would be neat to have Tops-20 have in memory files like TMPCOR.
However, with a typically loaded system (60+ users), that probably would have been
suicidal.
On 3/14/20 11:36 AM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
I remember using a C compiler under TOPS-10, but that was far away and very long ago.
Can anybody tell me if my memory is bad, or did that really exist? Was it a DEC product
or a DECUS thing?
Thanks
Bob