Infocom on PDP-11

[Kevin Handy]

Allison wrote:

> Decmate II/III uses 6120 (PDP-8 with EMA). There is no *nix for the PDP-8
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>and OS278 is common.  FYI: VMS runs on VAX(32bit) and Alpha(64bit).
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And the almost dead Intel IA-64 bit line.

>If you can fit the game format into a 32Kword 12bit machine it's possible.
>Generally speaking there isn't a C compiler for PDP-8 I know of and the
>4k paged addressing and very minimalist instruction set would be an 
>interesting challenge. I've seen Fortan, Focal, Basic and even algol
>on an 8 but never C.
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I think that C really needs to have a stack to be useful: recursive
calls, pass by (alterable) value, multiple levels of local variables,
etc.  At least it is much easier to implement if you have a stack.

Does there exist a good C compiler for any machine lacking a stack?

>There is also the VAXmate, a flavor of a 286 clone.
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>Allison
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