[TUHS] C from 1980 binaries

[Gregg Levine via TUHS]

Hello!
I remember reading that book. So much so that I found the copy I did
read online, and bought it.
----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the
Moscow subway."

On Sun, Nov 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM Jon Forrest via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cordially,
> Jon Forrest
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