On 2018-01-26 18:48, Timothe Litt wrote:
BLISS-36,-16,-32,-32E,-64E, MIPS, INTEL, IA64, are DEC's common BLISS -
evolved (and greatly extended) from BLISS-11, but not (really)
source-compatible for non-trivial programs. "common" means that (with
carefully defined exceptions that can be conditionally compiled), the
same language is accepted by all, and it's possible to write portable
programs. Including common BLISS itself. RMS-10/20 is another
non-trivial example - same sources as VAX/RMS. There are a number of
targets and host environment combinations that are supported.
BLISS-16 is hosted on both PDP-10 and VAX, producing PDP-11 object
code. I used both. I didn't encounter an Alpha-hosted version - but it
should have compiled & run there, so it probably existed. Or was VESTed.
I don't think BLISS-16 ran on PDP-10, but I could be wrong. I've never
seen or heard anything about BLISS-16 running on Alpha or beyond. I
guess it could be possible to do, but I sortof doubt anyone did. If
anyone have the bits, I would be very interested in hearing about it, as
I would like to recompile some bits and pieces. (Any BLISS-16 compiler
would be a good start.)
Most software written in BLISS-10 & -11 was converted to common BLISS.
There was an attempt at self-hosting BLISS-16, but it failed -
technically, it ran, but there really wasn't enough address space to
make it usable. Cross-compiling wasn't popular (networks were crude),
so BLISS-16 was not as widely adopted.
Well, parts of the RSX kernel is written in BLISS-16, and all of RMS-11.
Also some parts of DECnet-11M-PLUS.
That much I know. I don't know what else might been written in BLISS-16.
Johnny
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