Re: macro-11 for V7-Unix

On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 07:52:53PM -0500, Tim Shoppa wrote: I believe the SEP RELAG-3 system (www.sep.de) is based on LSI-11, not sure it is written in assembler, though. Perhaps Torsten could tell ... Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg(a)begemot.org> Begemot Computer Associates Phone: +64 7 8562148 40 Masters Avenue, Hillcrest Fax: +64 7 8562148 Hamilton, New Zealand Pager: +64 868 38222 Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA19013 for pups-liszt; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:18:09 +1100 (EST) Received: from chiton.ucsd.edu (chiton.ucsd.edu [192.135.238.128]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA19009 for <PUPS(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>au>; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:17:48 +1100 (EST) Received: (from cdl@localhost) by chiton.ucsd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA04673; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 21:17:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 21:17:43 -0800 (PST) From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl(a)mpl.ucsd.edu> Message-Id: <200001180517.VAA04673(a)chiton.ucsd.edu> To: SHOPPA(a)trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: macro-11 for V7-Unix Cc: PUPS(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk > From owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Fri Jan 14 17:09 PST 2000 > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:52:53 -0500 > From: Tim Shoppa <SHOPPA(a)trailing-edge.com> > To: PUPS(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au > Subject: Re: macro-11 for V7-Unix > > >In article by Prof. Karl Kleine: > >> once upon a time, it was around 1981, I used a pdp11/45 with V7 > >> (I started my life with Unix with V6 in 1977/8), doing some research > >> in compilers, portability, dense code schemes for interpreters. > >> For that I used a port of DEC MACRO-11 to Unix. There was also > >>... > >> I have the Supnik emulator to play with, and I wonder if this > >> macro-11 and linker is still somewhere around. I would love to > >> prepare a few examples for my lessons here (I'm a professor in > > >Hi Karl, I think this came up on Usenet recently. No I don't know > >of a port of Macro-11 to Unix. I'll pass this on to our mailing list, > >just in case anybody knows of it. > > > One possibility is the "as11" assembler from Xinu. It's a fairly portable > PDP-11 assembler, but doesn't have all the real macro facilities of > real Macro-11. You can find this at > > http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/xinu/un… > > The other (and more likely) possibility is the "m11" macro package from > Harvard, which *does* come with a linker ("l11") as Karl described. The > full distribution is in the 2.11BSD source tree, at "/usr/src/new/m11". > > Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Let me toss in another possibility. Around that time (late 70's - early 80's) we (Marine Physical Lab) were running an RT-11 emulator on a couple of our PDP-11 Unix systems. Product of Human Computing Resources, as I remember. Once you can emulate RT-11, you can run all of its CUSPs: assembler, linker, Fortran, what have you. Assuming, of course, that you have appropriate licenses etc. We did it to get a reasonably capable Fortran compiler with our Unix. carl carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego {decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mpl!cdl cdl(a)mpl.ucsd.edu clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu