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

[Alan Frisbie]

On 09/08/2014 02:44 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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.

I think I have a copy of that tape.   Unfortunately, it is in a
room with so much stuff that I can't get to it now.   However, I
will keep it in mind.   When I find it, I will let you know.

Alan