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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>
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Reply-To: dieter@titan.nmt.edu (The Demented Teddy Bear)
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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
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