DEC program listing

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Shoppa <shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com> writes:

 >> but I don't know that DEC ever did anything in Bliss on PDP-11s
 Tim> The Error log analyzer in RSX-11 is in Bliss-11, as is the
 Tim> serial-line-transfer utility (name escapes me at the moment,
 Tim> XFER?) that came with RT-11.

Thanks, I didn't know that.  I never encountered those.  RSTS
certainly never did anything like that.  Having BASIC-PLUS around
helps, of course, and when that wasn't good enough, there was FORTH!

 Tim> Sources to a BLISS-11 compiler are in DECUS entry 10-213,
 Tim> available on DECUS library tape DECUS-10-LIB-4 in the [43,50325]
 Tim> directory.

 Tim> See http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/ if you don't already have
 Tim> all the DECUS-10 library tapes.

 Tim> The Bliss-11 on the DECUS tape is not quite the same as the
 Tim> Bliss compiler used to build the tools I mentioned, but is an
 Tim> earlier version.

 Tim> I think internal to DEC the version of the Bliss compiler that
 Tim> ran on a VAX and cross-compiled to the PDP-11 was called
 Tim> Bliss-16.

That sounds familiar, there's Bliss-16 and Bliss-11; one is from
Carnegie-Mellon and compiles on a 10, the other from DEC and compiles
on a VAX.  But they all are Bliss, which is a truly atrocious
language.

	paul