7 Dec
2024
7 Dec
'24
6:10 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 at 04:56, David Arnold <davida(a)pobox.com> wrote:
It was able to run a lot of the free software of the time with a little
effort. There was a GCC port, gnumake, MicroEmacs, X11R4 (? Maybe R5?)
I was curious about the GCC port as I've spent far, far too much time
looking through GCC support for various platforms and I have no memory of
this target. Turns out it was an entirely independent effort, and probably
a one-off:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.transputer/c/Zt6WNxneS08/m/ZBRytllF_X8J
. The standard C compiler was a different beast, and I was not immediately
able to recognize its lineage; it may have been developed from scratch.
A mostly complete archive of Helios sources is here:
https://github.com/axelmuhr/Helios-NG
-Henry
-Henry