[TUHS] C from 1980 binaries

[Jon Forrest via TUHS]

On 11/1/26 7:06 AM, Jeffrey Joshua Rollin via TUHS wrote:
> I have never heard of Teraks.
They were a version of LSI-11 (similar to a PDP-11/03)
that has some special graphics hardware. It had less than
1MB of RAM.

I also used the Teraks that Frew mentioned at UCSB
to (badly) teach a course in PDP-11 assembler. Each
student had their own 8" floppy on which they had
a bootable version of RT-11. That version was sufficient
to edit, assemble, run, and debug assembler programs.

One of the reasons I taught the course so badly was that
I had never actually programmed in PDP-11 assembler but
I had been around a bunch of assembler programs where
I had an internship.

One of the professors in CS, Art Pyster, used UCSD Pascal on
the Teraks to develop a compiler generator he later
described in "Compiler Design and Construction",
one of the early books about compilers.

Cordially,
Jon Forrest