Folks, There is BLISS source codes for TOPS-20 in pdp-10.trailing-edge.com.
There is a free copy of BLISS compilers for VAX and Alpha in Freeware CD dist. There is a online version of The Design of an Optimizing Compiler on CMU website. I have a question for you. Does anyone know any documents to learn how to write BLISS codes? Thanks, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Phil Budne Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 12:09 PM To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] 101 Basic Games for RSTS/E (was Re: PDP11 on Simh for public access) Paul Koning wrote: > As for BLISS, there's BLISS-16 and BLISS-11. One came from Carnegie-Mellon; > the other was built at DEC. Both are cross-compilers, but I don't remember > which platform. PDP-10 for both? 10 for one and VAX for the other? BLISS-11 was written in BLISS-10 (and both were written at C-MU), and BLISS-11 was the jumping off point for COMMON BLISS. I think sources for both 'B10 and 'B11 are on PDP-10 DECUS tapes. BLISS-16 was a member of the COMMON BLISS family. I don't ever remember seeing an EXE for it on a PDP-10, but I was never a COMMON BLISS fan. I hacked on FINE at Stevens Tech (the computing center had a copy of BLISS-36, the PDP-10 COMMON BLISS compiler, but it wasn't available to the unwashed masses). When I went to DEC, I worked on FORTRAN-10/20, which was also in BLISS-10. I was down in Marlborough (MR1-2) and don't recall ever seeing COMMON BLISS sources. I do recall a mention (perhaps in a published article?) of the existence of a "cut down" version of BLISS-16 that could run on an '11. I once sang in a chorus with someone who had worked on COMMON BLISS. ISTR he said he was a contractor, not a DEC employee. My boss on the F10 project was Sara Murphy, one of the original F10 developers, and I have some recall that she had been involved in a fancy BASIC for TOPS-20 (I _think_ it was called BP2, but I could be wrong). phil _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
