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On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 22:38:06 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:24:35 -0400, EricP wrote:
>
>> VAX Fortran77 and other compilers and tools were developed concurrently
>> with VAX hardware on the PDP-11 but emitting VAX instructions.
>
> DEC was quite fond of BLISS at the time. Its high-performance “Fortran
> IV Plus” compiler for the PDP-11 was written in BLISS.

Imagine trying to fit LLVM or GCC into a PDP/11 address space.

> Trouble is, they were not able to get a decent BLISS compiler to fit
> within the limitations of the PDP-11. So the Fortran IV Plus compiler
> had to be built on a PDP-10.