[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-08 20:32, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

Oh! I thought he had seen a native PDP-11 BLISS. Yes, the PDP-10 
BLISS-11 cross compiler I knew about.

	Johnny

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