[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-08, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2014-09-08 16:06, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <luhujr$hfe$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>> Paul Sture wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since I just stated in another post that Fortan was the first HLL language
>>>> available for VAX/VMS, was Bliss available to the public before it
>>>> appeared on the Freeware CDs?
>>>
>>> Bliss was available on the PDP-11s.  But as with other compilers, you
>>> had to purchase it.  Free came later.
>>
>>     I've seen a free BLISS compiler for PDP-11 on a DECUS tape.  But I
>>     thought DEC only supported BLISS-16 as cross compilers that ran
>>     on PDP-10 or VAXen.
>
> Indeed. Would you happen know any more details of what was on that DECUS 
> tape, when that tape was created, and any other details? I searched 
> through all the DECUS RSX-SIG tapes, I found nothing about BLISS 
> anywhere in there.
>

DECUS tape #213 contains what looks like a PDP-11 cross compiler for a
PDP-10 host.

The notes appear to be here:

	http://www.decuslib.com/decus/vmslt97b/pdp11/bliss-changes.txt

and the kit itself is here:

	ftp://ftp.iecc.com/pub/file/

You want bliss.tar.gz, but be aware it's a tarbomb so make sure you
create a directory and cd to it before unpacking the kit.

Simon.

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