[Info-vax] Bliss was Re: Learning VMS application programming

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-08 00:00:57 +0000, David Froble said:

> I knew some PDP-11 code was developed in Bliss.  I never knew it wasn't 
> compiled on the PDP-11s.  I just ass-u-me ed that Bliss-11 was a PDP-11 
> language.
> 
> I'm wondering, if you used SimH to simulate a PDP-10, and could find 
> the cross compiler, if it would help in your work?

When it came to hosting a native Bliss compiler, PDP-11 wasn't 
sufficiently capable; the compromises involved were too great.

See page 974: 
<http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/ronald-brender/bliss.pdf>



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