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

[Hunter Goatley]

On 1/26/2018 2:22 PM, Timothe Litt wrote:
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> BLISS would have done better in the outside world, except for the 
> DECision to price it higher than the market would bear.

Indeed! I was fortunate to get access to BLISS in college thanks to 
DEC's CSLG program, but it was their second-most expensive compiler 
license (after Ada), so virtually no one outside of DEC used it. When 
they originally released Alpha, they weren't planning to make the BLISS 
compiler available, but I and others worked to try to get DEC to change 
that. As I'm sure you know, in the end, they released it with a free 
license for both VAX and Alpha (and Itanium), but it was far too late 
for most people to have any interest in adopting it. I still do some 
BLISS coding, but I'm one of the few that I know of still doing it.

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Hunter
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