11 Apr
2018
11 Apr
'18
4:47 p.m.
On Apr 11, 2018, at 5:48 PM, ben via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
I have a nice 18 bit cpu here, with only a few hardware bugs.
Hmm would it work better if I change that around ideas.
Care to point to a nice 18 bit version of unix or C.
BTW The cpu has a frame pointer S but no S++ --S operations
so pushing and popping wild data is not a option.
I haven't tried pcc, but supposedly that has been ported to the PDP-10, so presumably
it can be ported to an 18-bit machine too.
You could try gcc; creating a simple back end is not all that hard. And while it makes no
attempt to support non-multiple-of-8-bit machines, it can be forced to, after a fashion.
One time for grins I banged together a very primitive CDC 6000 back end. It wasn't
correct but it wasn't horribly wrong...
18 bit Unix, not sure about that one. It was originally done on a PDP-7 but I think that
was before C and it's no longer around that I know of. Still, older versions might be
somewhat portable.
Does it have to be Unix? For a simple character environment, Forth is nice and it's
very easy to port to pretty much any computer.
paul
and real
text screen UNIX is not aviable anymore.
Sure it is.