[HECnet] Swedish Pascal under RSX-11M-Plus?

[Pontus Pihlgren]

On a tangent, who made Swedish Pascal?

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On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 08:49:22AM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Aaaand... One more comment.
> 
> I don't know exactly which version of Swedish Pascal I have. I remember
> going through all DECUS tapes at the time, trying to find the most recent
> version, but you might have a newer version than me.
> I fixed the patching though, so you can just apply that knowledge to your
> version.
> 
> The correct patch for RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 is:
> GBLPAT=ROOT:$AUTO+34:431        ; BR    SEGENT rsx v4.1
> 
>   Johnny
> 
> On 2017-10-31 08:33, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >By the way... I played around with Swedish Pascal a few years ago, for
> >some needs I had for Pascal. I hit some snags with Oregon Pascal, and then
> >tried Swedish, and realized the code generated is rather ugly, and it was
> >going to be a gigantic effort if you ever want it to be able to run with
> >split I/D space, so I gave up on it.
> >
> >There is also the DEC PDP-11 Pascal, which I never tried getting to run,
> >as it appeared it wasn't any better than Oregon.
> >
> >   Johnny
> >
> >On 2017-10-31 08:27, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >>Um.. Yes. That rings a bell.
> >>I fixed that a few years ago. You should find a correct version at
> >>MIM::DU:[SWEPAS]
> >>
> >>   Johnny
> >>
> >>On 2017-10-31 02:29, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   Hey folks.  I'm trying to get "Swedish" Pascal v6.3 running under
> >>>RSX-11M-Plus v4.6, and have hit a problem.  The created PAS.TSK crashes
> >>>on invocation, and I suspect it may be due to a patch that gets applied
> >>>to a library during the build process.  This appears in PAS.BLD:
> >>>
> >>>         ;
> >>>         ; The above GBLPAT statement patches a branch instruction
> >>>         ; into the system overlay autoload routine AUTO.
> >>>         ; The last few releases of most operating systems have had
> >>>         ; different versions of AUTO.  The proper GBLPAT statement
> >>>         ; to use above depends on which AUTO routine you have on
> >>>         ; your system.  You can identify which one you have by
> >>>         ; examining the object module ident of module AUTO in
> >>>         ; the system object library, SYSLIB.  Use a command such as
> >>>         ; "LBR LB:[1,1]SYSLIB/FU" to do this.  The GBLPAT statements
> >>>         ; to use with each AUTO routine are:
> >>>         ;
> >>>         ;    AUTO ident         GBLPAT statement
> >>>         ;   ============       ==================
> >>>         ;    ??early??         GBLPAT=ROOT:$AUTO+34:437
> >>>         ;      08              GBLPAT=ROOT:$AUTO+34:435
> >>>         ;      09.08           GBLPAT=ROOT:$AUTO+36:441
> >>>         ;      10.02           GBLPAT=ROOT:$AUTO+36:431
> >>>         ;
> >>>
> >>>   The ident of AUTO in my system is 10.05, making that patch
> >>>potentially
> >>>land at the wrong address.  However, that's just my suspicion.  Has
> >>>anyone gotten Swedish Pascal v6.3 running under RSX-11M-Plus v4.6?
> >>>
> >>>             -Dave
> >>>
> >>
> >
> 
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