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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Slightly off topic, but I would love to find the ALGOL68C port for TOPS-20. I believe it may have been on a DECUS tape, but I don’t know and I have never been able to find it. Does anyone by any chance have a copy anywhere?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Thomas DeBellis<br><b>Sent:</b> 14 March 2020 16:05<br><b>To:</b> hecnet@Update.UU.SE<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [HECnet] C compiler for TOPS-10<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Your memory jives with mine; I do seem to remember Tops-10 having a C compiler. Nothing else, I'm afraid.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Once I get a few more things straightened out with disk allocation, I am going to continue my quest to download all the DECUS tapes for Tops-10 and Tops-20 and put them on a dual RP07 structure(s). Lots of interesting stuff. If I stumble across it, I'll let you know.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Tops-20 has two C compilers that I am aware of. KCC, which is natively hosted and gnu, which will compile for the PDP-10. I don't know if the gnu compiler is natively hosted; <i>another</i> thing I've been meaning to look at.<o:p></o:p></p><p>The integration between C and Tops-10 would be interesting. Make isn't directly possible as there are no forks. I guess you'd write a bunch of files into TMPCOR and then go make COMPIL swallow them.<o:p></o:p></p><p>I always thought it would be neat to have Tops-20 have in memory files like TMPCOR. However, with a typically loaded system (60+ users), that probably would have been suicidal.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 3/14/20 11:36 AM, Robert Armstrong wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal> I remember using a C compiler under TOPS-10, but that was far away and very long ago. Can anybody tell me if my memory is bad, or did that really exist? Was it a DEC product or a DECUS thing?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bob<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>