[TUHS] C from 1980 binaries

[Wendt Alan via TUHS]

Might be on a CS Department backup from that era?

On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 11:31 AM John Foust via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
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> I'm working on a fun project with Prof. Tim Teitelbaum of Cornell, who
> developed the Cornell Program Synthesizer, an early IDE that ran on the
> Terak computer.  We have an image of an 8" disk with the executables.
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> Source has been lost, so I'd like to try to reconstruct it.  He believes
> the original was in an early C, circa 1979-1982, compiled on
> (I presume Unix) on maybe an 11/30 and them copied down to the
> Terak (like a PDP-11/03).
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> Is there an existing tool chain that is good at reconstructing C from
> binaries of the C compiler of this era?
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> - John
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