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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-08 02:13, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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>

I wish I could get my hands on that experiment. I think that today it 
would be possible to get a native BLISS compiler running under RSX, and 
with reasonable capacity.

	Johnny

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