DEC program listing

Tim> The Error log analyzer in RSX-11 is in Bliss-11, as is the Tim> serial-line-transfer utility (name escapes me at the moment, Tim> XFER?) that came with RT-11. Thanks, I didn't know that. I never encountered those. RSTS certainly never did anything like that. Having BASIC-PLUS around helps, of course, and when that wasn't good enough, there was FORTH! Tim> Sources to a BLISS-11 compiler are in DECUS entry 10-213, Tim> available on DECUS library tape DECUS-10-LIB-4 in the [43,50325] Tim> directory. Tim> See http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/ if you don't already have Tim> all the DECUS-10 library tapes. Tim> The Bliss-11 on the DECUS tape is not quite the same as the Tim> Bliss compiler used to build the tools I mentioned, but is an Tim> earlier version. Tim> I think internal to DEC the version of the Bliss compiler that Tim> ran on a VAX and cross-compiled to the PDP-11 was called Tim> Bliss-16. That sounds familiar, there's Bliss-16 and Bliss-11; one is from Carnegie-Mellon and compiles on a 10, the other from DEC and compiles on a VAX. But they all are Bliss, which is a truly atrocious language. paul