4 Mar
2025
4 Mar
'25
9:55 p.m.
On 3/3/25 10:46 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Rob Gingell wrote:
Yes, Jay's was I was thinking of. I'm embarrassed to have spaced on
that, Jay was such a presence in both the TOPS-20 and UNIX worlds,
thanks for reminding me.
On 3/4/25 7:07 AM, Chet Ramey via TUHS wrote:
Yes, the Harrenstein C was the one we'd
expected to use and were
playing with at the time. We'd tried the Snyder compiler and one other
I don't recall right now as well.
Probably Jay Lepreau's PCC from Utah, or maybe Sargasso C. We expected a lot less from the system and compiler in
the bash-1.12 days;
that helped here.
How would those expectations differ from what V7 provided, as PAUNIX's
ambitions only went that far (not that they couldn't be expanded but...)
The thing is the Harrenstein C must've gotten more complete runtime
support to run 1.12 and seems like that'd exceed V7 and make PAUNIX even
more futile.
On 3/3/25 10:40 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Please! At the very least, can you put the code
online?
It seems likely to be just a novelty and of no real use (and given the
above, not necessary) but putting it online would be fine.
The code is copyrighted/licensed by CWRU (and in some cases, both CWRU
and me) and that should get cleaned up. At the time this work was done
in the early 1980's, we had what was really a naive and clumsy view of
how to go about it all. By today's expectations it looks more
restrictive than anyone intended.
I'll go get that cleaned up and follow-up with you (Lars) about going
forward.