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

[Johnny Billquist]

Bunch of guys at Ericsson. Main author is Seved Torstendahl, who I 
happen to sortof know... (Haven't seen him in 15 years, though. Probably 
retired now.)

   Johnny

On 2017-10-31 09:06, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> On a tangent, who made Swedish Pascal?
> 
> /P
> 
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>>                                    ||  on a psychedelic trip
>> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
>> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol


-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol