[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4af8dc2d$0$277$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
> So they did inherit Macro and Bliss from PDP-11.
> 

   Macro-11 is not Macro-32, although there is some similarity because
   there is some similarity in architecture,and the thinking of the
   folks who wrote the assemblers.

   Bliss-11 and Bliss-32 are variants of Common BLISS, as is Bliss-36.
   Bliss-36 is more a direct decendant of the original BLISS for PDP-10
   (aka BLISS-10).  There is a version of Bliss-32 that actually does
   64 bit for Alpha, and something for IA64.

   Bliss-11 exists only as a cross compiler that runs on PDP-10 or one
   that runs on VAX.  There's source for a Bliss-11 compiler somewhere
   in the DECUS archives, I think it's written in Macro-10.

   So if VMS inheritted BLISS from anywhere, I'd say it's from PDP-10,
   not PDP-11.