I seem to remember there were a few PDP-11 fans on here...
Fancy a job? :-)
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Darren
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[OT] PDP-11 programmer wanted?
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Some students posted this on my FaceBook group and suggested I could do it!
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Golly. I used to write C on one of those..
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Make sure your 3rd party liability insurance is up to date ;-)
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C ? Pah! I started on them in assembler, but did hand assembly at times. Not to mention compilers for a couple of languages...
And I have four PDP-11s right here anyway.
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If you're going to write assembler for the PDP-11, then I can recommend this language:
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Yup, seen that. Although I can write it really fast anyway!
That was inspired by PL-360, and I designed a similar one for another architecture - PL-516. The Honeywell 16 series were quite common at the time.
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Mid 70s saw me programming PDP11 with ML/1 studying under its Author Peter Brown and his wife Heather at University of Kent. I'll still have my notes - "somewhere"
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Not another one! I didn't know/remember that. As for notes:
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Peter died a few years ago but Heather is retired and living in Devon.
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Indeed. Twas I that ported it to the 168 in 1978 (Bob Russell had left CERN by then). I was able to write a bootstrapper for booting PDP-11s over data links at the time. That *was* fun.
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Ever do any BCPL?
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PDP-11: luxury. I wrote my first serious code on a PDP-8f. I almost memorised the RIM loader in the end. And I had a colleague who could read assembler straight off paper tape.
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I built two of these:
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(readable by everyone even if not a FB user)
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I used to run the BCPL User Group.
I did compilers for the DECSystem-10, Elliott 4130, PDP-11, VAX, ICL
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I patched a self-compiling compiler into a PDP-11 in 1982. Once it worked, of course, it just compiled itself. Unless it had a new bug, so I always had several old copies of the compiler.
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This one is in lots of places, but worth reading if you've never seen it...
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Hmm, the nuclear industy's still using those - does that give me a warm feeling all over or - NO, Torness just went bang, my mistake.
Posted in Sunny Edinburgh. Actually, that's not the Sun...
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They were pretty reliable. The University of Edinburgh used them as node processors all over their network. And RJE stations. And frone end processors for their mainframes.
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Fair enough, but they're still OLD electronic devices...
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Well I might possibly be hornswoggled. I recall going to a BCPL User Group meeting at Kent run by "Bob" in about 1983 or so. Martin Richard's brother was there IIRC. I was working at SLAC at the time, came along with my nephew Stephen who was a bit green then but went on to found Eidos.
I joined the BCPL User Group for £5 but then heard nothing more. Were you "Bob"? If so ICMFP.