11 Jul
2019
11 Jul
'19
10:30 p.m.
By the time of 4.2 the switch from the Ritchie and Johnson compilers at UCB had begun.
Remember the primary output of Rms at that point was emacs and gcc.
CSRG wanted the different backends for C. ThAts it. Besides the vax, Rms had done 68000
and 386 back ends then.
With the original system V, all of AT&T, Intel and IBM paid Interactive Systems Corp
(aka ISC) to port the System V/Vax code to a 386 ps/2 and an Intel reference system that
used an ISA bus. This would be eventually released in source at the 386 port from
AT&T. As part of the contract summit supplied the compiler
I know the AT&T assembler with it’s backwards syntax from Intel was done before rms
did his. He was compatible with the summit assembler. I don’t remember who’s 386 backend
came out first. I think is was the summit compiler but you needed a system v license
which UCB did not have.
Clem
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Jul 11, 2019, at 8:50 AM, Jason Stevens
<jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
That would make sense. I was able to find some info on PCC2 here
http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-before-berkeley/
I'm guessing along with the adoption of emacs the csrg must have been further gnu
synergy... Or maybe PCC2 just wasn't available outside of the labs?
Or maybe by '88 gcc was already usurping many of the c compilers of the era.
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:37 PM +0800, "Clem cole" <clemc(a)ccc.com>
wrote:
> I believe the pcc/386 came out of Steve Johnson team at Summit with the PCC2 work.
>
> Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
>
>> On Jul 11, 2019, at 7:53 AM, Jason Stevens <jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com>
wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know where the 386 port from PCC came from?
>>
>> While trying to build a Tahoe userland for the i386, it seems that everything was
built with GCC…
>> Was there a PCC for the i386 around ’88-90? It seems after the rapid demise of
the Tahoe/Harris
>> HCX-9 that the non Vax/HCX-9 platforms had moved to GCC?
>>
>> Also anyone know any good test software for LIBC? I’ve been tracing through
some
>> strange issues rebuilding LIBC from Tahoe, where I had to include some bits from
>> Reno to get diropen to actually work. I would imagine there ought to have been
some
>> platform exercise code to make sure things were actually working instead of say
>> building as much as you can, and playing rogue for a few hours to make sure
>> its stable enough.