Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!nmtsun!dieter From: dieter@titan.nmt.edu (The Demented Teddy Bear) Newsgroups: comp.org.decus Subject: Re: C compiler for little PDP-11s Message-ID: <1541@nmtsun.nmt.edu> Date: 29 Nov 88 06:46:44 GMT References: <1535@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <1067@netxcom.UUCP> Sender: dieter@nmtsun.nmt.edu Reply-To: dieter@titan.nmt.edu (The Demented Teddy Bear) Organization: New Mexico Tech Lines: 26 In-reply-to: dmcintee@netxcom.UUCP (Dave McIntee) In article <1067@netxcom.UUCP>, dmcintee@netxcom (Dave McIntee) writes: > In article <1535@nmtsun.nmt.edu> I write: > >I've been led to believe that a C compiler for small PDP-11s exists. > > In 1983 and 84 I used DECUS C on a PDP-11/34a with 128KB on memory running > RSTS/E. (Try to find a smaller system that today!) It worked out very well. No problem. PDP-11/03 w/ 30 Kw of memory running RT-11. That's right, no separate I&D. I need a code squeezer; it's kind of like a wine press, only different. I remember when 16 Kb was more memory than anyone would ever use, except maybe the big number-crunching physicists and their Crays. Today, 4 Mb is too small for a Sun 3/50 running SunOS 4.0 (or even 3.5). And yet Unix started on a PDP-11 that wasn't much bigger than my 03. VMS is pretty much a pig with similar amounts of memory also. Whatever happened to "small & fast"? Never mind me, I'm rambling again. Even my employer knows I'm going senile.... Dieter -- Welcome to the island. You are number six. dieter%nmt@relay.cs.net dieter@jupiter.nmt.edu