[Simh] 101 Basic Games for RSTS/E (was Re: PDP11 on Simh for public access)

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Fri Jan 26 12:48:11 EST 2018



> On Jan 26, 2018, at 12:08 PM, Phil Budne <phil at ultimate.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks.  I've never used it, but I ran into it when looking at the CMU PDP-11 ALGOL-68 implementation.  I had some DECtapes of that code, only the runtime library if I remember right.  They seem to have disappeared, and I don't know if that compiler has been preserved.  Note that ALGOL-68 is an entirely different language than ALGOL-60; in a number of areas it served as inspiration for C++.

	paul



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