>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Kunz <jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> writes:
Jochen> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:10:44 -0500 Paul Koning
Jochen> <pkoning_at_equallogic.com> wrote:
>> Anyway, the BSD 2.x code might be helpful; after all that fits
>> into a PDP-11. And it's written in C.
Jochen> I just thought the same.
>> As for the compiler, you could do a Nova port for GCC... :-)
Jochen> Or modify the 2.x BSD cc to emit code for the Nova... I know
Jochen> that the old BSD PCC was extended to support ANSI C and emit
Jochen> PDP-10 code for the PDP-10 port of NetBSD because PCC is so
Jochen> small and simple. --
Interesting. But there is also a PDP-10 port of GCC, see
www.nocrew.org
Also, GCC already supports the PDP-11, which suggests that a Nova port
might not be all that hard. (Certainly easier than the PDP-10 port
was, with its funky word size.)
paul
Received on Fri Feb 18 2005 - 09:16:38 GMT