[Info-vax] Bliss

[bill]

On 7/15/2024 8:23 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-07-12, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>> On 7/12/2024 9:19 AM, Hunter Goatley wrote:
>>
>>> I had heard eons ago that DEC had a bunch of BLISS compilers: for
>>> RSTS, for ULTRIX, for Windows. I don't know if they really did, but
>>> they were certainly never made available outside of DEC,
>>> unfortunately.
>>
>> There were certainly compilers that generated bliss objects for the PDP-11, but they
>> were not hosted on a PDP-11; even the mighty, beloved task builder could not make it
>> fit.
>>    
> 
> $ set response/mode=good_natured
> 
> For those of us who had to work with overlay description files at the
> start of our career, there's nothing beloved about that &$^#$^ TKB. :-)
> 

I ran overlayed programs all the time.  My Ultrix-11 was a heavily 
overlayed kernel to have room for networking. No big deal.

bill