[HECnet] C compiler for TOPS-10

[Thomas DeBellis]

Your memory jives with mine; I do seem to remember Tops-10 having a C 
compiler.  Nothing else, I'm afraid.

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.

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; /another/ thing I've been meaning to 
look at.

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.

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.

On 3/14/20 11:36 AM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>
>   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?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
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