[HECnet] BLISS-16?

[Steve Davidson]

uBLISS made it to (internal) field-test.   I don't remember how much
further it got.   That's how I got a chance to use it.   No commitment was
made as to how much of a subset would finally be delivered but at the
time I did not care.   I thought that even as slow as it was it was a
blast to play with.   I remember submitting uBLISS jobs to RSX-11M-PLUS
systems (ASTRIX:: and OBELIX::), (Corporate Operations Group, Software
Services), while doing real work.   It worked for me!

-Steve 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE 
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Tim Sneddon
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 10:19
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] BLISS-16?

On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 15:57 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Hi, Steve.

Looking for the cross compiler. (Like I said, BLISS-16 for 
VMS... :-) ).

I've seen one reference for uBLISS, but I have no idea of 
the status 
of

Micro-BLISS was a BLISS compiler that ran on the PDP-11.   
However, it was not at all successful.   Given the size of the 
BLISS compiler much of the optimisations, etc. had to be 
removed to make it all fit.   I don't believe it was actually 
completed as a project.

that one. Was it even usable? Why did DEC not use it internally for 
the Bliss stuff for PDP-11s?

PDP-11 BLISS was either written on a PDP-10 or VAX.   The 
PDP-11 Fortran IV compiler was written in BLISS-11.   DECnet 
was written in the Common BLISS dialect.

Tim.