14 Mar
2020
14 Mar
'20
5:04 p.m.
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