Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!umix!metavax!oxtrap!b-tech!applga!simmons From: simmons@applga.uucp (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Bliss Compiler wanted Summary: Certianly were in 1983 Message-ID: <780@applga.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 88 14:36:01 GMT References: <2980@ihuxz.ATT.COM> <315@gt-eedsp.UUCP> Reply-To: simmons@applga.UUCP (Steve Simmons) Organization: Schlumberger CAD/CAM Division, Ann Arbor, MI. Lines: 26 In article <315@gt-eedsp.UUCP> jensen@gt-eedsp.UUCP (P. Allen Jensen) writes: > >Is the CMU Bliss the same as the BLISS used by DEC ? In '83 I was supporting some BLISS-10 utilities at ADP Network Services. We ran into bugs in the DEC BLISS-10 compiler which DEC wouldn't fix. We had source, which was full of CMU names. I went to CM to see if theirs was PD, and if so, could we get it. On doing some comparison, we found that the DEC BLISS-10 compiler was absolutely identical to the CMU except for a few bug fixes CMU had done since DEC picked it up. About this time DEC came out with the BLISS-16, BLISS-32, and BLISS-36 compilers to be their "standard systems development language". They wanted a ludicrous amount of money for BLISS-36. We ordered an evaluation copy, and found it was absolutely identical to BLISS-10. Same checksum. And same support categore. I forget the name, but it meant "We will accept bug reports. But we will take no action." That's the way it was in '83. Needless to say, we didn't buy BLISS-36. If you can get BLISS from CMU and you have a PDP-10 machine, do it. -- +- Steve Simmons UNIX Systems Mgr. Schlumberger CAD/CAM -+ + simmons@applga.uucp ...umix!applga!simmons + +- "Opinions expressed are all my own, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc." -+