[Simh] Cross Compilers (and memories thereof)

[Dave Wade]

I note someone said MTS hosted several cross assemblers and compilers. Readers may be interested to note that a sanitised copy of MTS ready to run on the Hercules S390/XA/390 emulator is available for download.

http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/mts-d60A

http://www.hercules-390.eu/

Dave Wade
G4UGM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of
> Armistead, Jason BIS
> Sent: 23 February 2016 17:32
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Cross Compilers (and memories thereof)
> 
> Let's move this to a new thread subject of its own !
> 
> On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 12:04 PM, Davis Johnson <davis at frizzen.com>
> wrote (under old subject Re: [Simh] Interdata OS/32: hello-world in CAL32) :
> 
> > One that I remember was TI had a 9900 cross assembler written in
> FORTRAN (all caps in those days). It was free to educational institutions.
> > I talked a prof. into requesting it, but the available FORTRAN compiler didn't
> like it.
> 
> Another now-defunct company, Microtec Research Incorporated (purchased
> by Mentor Graphics in late 1995), definitely had a TI9900 cross assembler
> written in FORTRAN from 1983.  We had the source code under license and
> compiled it under VAX/VMS (complete with CLI switches), and with a few
> custom tweaks, it was largely compatible with SDSMAC that ran on TI's 990
> computer systems (now simulated via Dave Pitts' SIM990).  There was also a
> linker/loader that produced Tektronix HEX output (similar to TI's SDSLNK) as
> the final executable.  I was able to modify the code enough to get it to
> compile under OpenWatcom's Fortran 77 on Windows XP.
> 
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