25 Nov
2015
25 Nov
'15
10:41 a.m.
Brad Parker wrote:
.... Remember sumex-aim ? SumMacC.
Anyway, I think the Kinetics fastpath was compiled with that....
Perhaps originally.... But when the FastPath code arrived at Shiva it
was using the SunOS 4 native compiler on Sun3. I moved it to gcc on Sun4.
The 6/88 KIP release has CC=/usr/stanford/bin/cc68
Rutgers KIP c. 1989 used gcc
There was also that wacky company in cambridge which
made a hybrid
c-compiler/c-interpreter. It worked really well but it wasn't quite
right. I loved the idea but never bought one. That was around 1988,
1989? I always hoped to find the source code for that.
Saber-C? It became "Code Center" by Centerline. Steve Kauffer kept it
going while working on startups (TripAdvisor being the successful one).
It ended up at ICS.COM: https://motif.ics.com/products/codecenter
ISTR some product of that ilk that read and patched object code and
only worked on RISC platforms...
I think gcc was the standard for 68k from 1987 on.
Yes, greenhills, but
it's not clear it produced better code and it was really expensive.
I never dealt with that many 68K compilers. I remember a whole slew
of problematic compilers and debuggers on 32x32 (Encore) and ROMP (IBM
PC/RT). At least of them couldn't handle cfront output and/or "Duff's
Device"
phil