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Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> writes:

> Here is some code I have received.  The Rutgers files say the compiler
> originally came from a Hamburg DEC-20.  The Hamburg files are for a
> DEC-10 and mention the CDC heritage.
>
> https://github.com/PDP-10/rutgers-pascal
> https://github.com/PDP-10/hamburg-pascal
The problem I'm having is that the documentation matches neither of my
TOPSes. Whatever was mentioned in the above and whatever is on
TOPS-20 Panda and TOPS-10 Pascal off the DECUS tapes is different from
that.

.r pascal

*bskara.rel=bskara.pas /cref /list

?SCNUKS Unknown switch LIST

*bskara.rel=bskara.pas/list

?SCNUKS Unknown switch LIST

*bskara.rel=bskara.pas
No error detected

Highseg:   1K
Lowseg :   1K
Runtime:   0: 0. 20
*^Z

.exec bskara 
LINK:	Loading
[LNKXCT	BSKARA execution]
INPUT      : 
OUTPUT     : 
[INPUT, end with ^Z: ]
1 -4 2
ax^2 + bx + c = 0 : Quadratic Equation Solver
Enter three numbers to solve your quadratic
equation as A B C for coefficients and constant: 
The roots rounded to four places are  3.4142 and  0.5858

EXIT

.dir bskara.*


BSKARA	REL    10  <057>   30-Mar-99	DSKB:	[30,1,DEV]
BSKARA	BAK     3  <057>   30-Mar-99
BSKARA	PAS     3  <057>   30-Mar-99
  Total of 16 blocks in 3 files on DSKB: [30,1,DEV]

So it's ignoring compiler switches all around
{$L+,O+ Compiler options for Listing and Assembly output}

on TOPS-10 *and* TOPS-20.

(*$T-,S1300,R16*)    <-- exact text from the linked manuals

@type expon.err
    1   (*$T-,S1300,R16*)
P*  1** ^
1.^:  Error in options
@
@exec expon
LINK:   Loading
[LNKNSA No start address]
%LNKDLT Execution deleted


This link:

https://github.com/PDP-10/hamburg-pascal/blob/master/oldpascal/pascal.doc.1
by the file name style, is for TOPS-20. Yet is says:
  MITTEILUNG NR. 37
PASCAL for the DECSystem-10

My T20 doc:pascal.doc one starts:
PASCAL FOR THE DECSYSTEM-20

which is clearly for the '20. So there is some mismatching of
documentation, binary code, and versions. 

T10's:

.type doc:pascal.doc

This document describes DECsystem-10  Pascal.	This  Pascal
system	is  the  result  of  cooperation  among  a number of
different  people.   It  was  originally  written   at	 the
University  of	Hamburg  by  a	group  of  people  under the
supervision  of  Prof.	 H.-H.	 Nagel.   This	version  was
developed  from  Prof.	 Nagel's  by Charles Hedrick, and is
maintained  by	him.   Lee  Cooprider  and  others  at	 the
University  of	Southern  California  have been particularly
helpful in supplying improvements, largely to the  debugger.
A  number  of  compiler  bug  fixes  were supplied by Andrew
Hisgen at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Compiler switches aren't that big of a deal for me, now, but exponents
would be very nice (x**y).

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