Tim Stark wrote: > There is BLISS source codes for TOPS-20 in pdp-10.trailing-edge.com.
As discussed recently: http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/2018-January/017459.html There are many BLISS languages! I found BLISS-11 sources and binaries in decus catalog item 10-325: directory [43,50325] in (The DECUS catalog numbers are decimal, TOPS-10 PPNs are octal) at http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/decuslib10-04/index.html I see BLIS10.EXE files on various "FORTRAN-TOOLS" savesets of: http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/FORTRAN-10_V7wLink_Feb83/index.html http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/BB-4157F-BM_1983/index.html http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/BB-D480C-SB_1981/index.html http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/bb-4157j-bm_fortran20_v11_16mt9/index.html http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/fortv11/index.html Looks like BLISS-36 binaries are there too!! http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/bls36v42/index.html http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/bb-j939f-bm/index.html I haven't spotted sources for BLISS-10 (ISTR when the FORTRAN-10/20 project found a bug someone else did a fix, so WE may not have had them), and I CERTAINLY never saw sources for Common BLISS. > There is a online version of The Design of an Optimizing Compiler on CMU > website. (which describes BLISS-11) > I have a question for you. Does anyone know any documents to learn how to > write BLISS codes? The printed manual for BLISS-10 (DEC-10-LBRMA-A-D for v4, Copyright 1974). is available at http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp10/TOPS10/DEC-10-LBRMA-A-D_BLISS-10_Programmers_Manual_Ver_4_Feb74.pdf A CMU manual for BLISS-10: http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2826&context=compsci I have a b/w photocopy of my DEC boss's copy of "BLISS-11 PROGRAMMERS MANUAL" in a DEC pdp11 (sunset?) cover, Copyright 1972. The first page says "The software described in this document is not suppoprted by Digital Equipment Corporation" and there isn't a DEC part number. 86 pages (without counting the unnumbered pages in front). Ah! Found this for BLISS-11, dated March 1972: http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2983&context=compsci (different than the DEC manual I have, ALL UPPER CASE, less chatty) Common BLISS was an (EXPENSIVE) PRODUCT, and there *MUST* have been a slew of manuals for it. The only thing I can spot in my list of paper docs is a BLISS-36 pocket guide: AV-AT45A-TK (1983) which I found here: http://www.livingcomputers.org/Discover/Online-Systems/User-Documentation/Tops-10-v7-04/6_BLISS-36_Users_Guide.aspx (not that I ever used it, never mind BLISS-32) And I found this (1980) combined tutorial/reference for Common BLISS: http://web.eah-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/BlissLanguageGuide.pdf There are some links at the bottom of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS Slides for an intro to BLISS-32 session from 1993: http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?BLISS-INTRO In line with the original topic, I found printed and on-line versions of the BASIC-PLUS-2 manual (one manual for TOPS-20 and pdp11!!): http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/basic/AA-0153A-TK_BASIC-PLUS-2_Language_Manual_Jul77.pdf _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh