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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Bliss
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:23:08 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-07-12, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com> wrote:
> On 7/12/2024 9:19 AM, Hunter Goatley wrote:
>
>> I had heard eons ago that DEC had a bunch of BLISS compilers: for
>> RSTS, for ULTRIX, for Windows. I don't know if they really did, but
>> they were certainly never made available outside of DEC,
>> unfortunately.
>
> There were certainly compilers that generated bliss objects for the PDP-11, but they
> were not hosted on a PDP-11; even the mighty, beloved task builder could not make it
> fit.
>   

$ set response/mode=good_natured

For those of us who had to work with overlay description files at the
start of our career, there's nothing beloved about that &$^#$^ TKB. :-)

Simon.

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Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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