[TUHS] PCC for the i386

Clem cole clemc at ccc.com
Fri Jul 12 01:37:21 AEST 2019


I believe the pcc/386 came out of Steve Johnson team at Summit with the PCC2 work.  

Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. 

> On Jul 11, 2019, at 7:53 AM, Jason Stevens <jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know where the 386 port from PCC came from?
>  
> While trying to build a Tahoe userland for the i386, it seems that everything was built with GCC…
> Was there a PCC for the i386 around ’88-90?  It seems after the rapid demise of the Tahoe/Harris
> HCX-9 that the non Vax/HCX-9 platforms had moved to GCC?
>  
> Also anyone know any good test software for LIBC?  I’ve been tracing through some
> strange issues rebuilding LIBC from Tahoe, where I had to include some bits from
> Reno to get diropen to actually work.  I would imagine there ought to have been some
> platform exercise code to make sure things were actually working instead of say
> building as much as you can, and playing rogue for a few hours to make sure
> its stable enough.
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