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Re: PDP11 emulator runs in your browser (Javascript required) ?!

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On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:25:08 +0100, ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> wrote:

>chrisj.doran@proemail.co.uk wrote:
>
>> I have the distribution kits on 8" floppies, at least for RSX and
>> maybe RT-11/VMS. But obviously I don't have the right to distribute
>> it. Even if you showed me a copy of your license, one of its weird
>> conditions (subject in the UK to Manx law!) was that it expired in 15
>> years.
>> 
>> Chris
>
>I still have disk copies for Whitesmiths C somewhere and the black bound 
>manual is still in a bookcase. I used it at Racal in the late 80's 
>writing s/ware for the Planet network. The version we bought was a cross 
>compiler from dos to pdp11. All the Planet s/w at the time was written 
>in macro, under 11/34's running rsx and the whitesmiths C was an attempt 
>to move development over to pc's. The 11/34's we used had 4 RL01's per 
>machine, running rsx and could support 6 or more users doing edits. 
>However, once a task build started for Planet, you couldn't get into the 
>machine for hours :-). Processor target was a qbus Falcon embedded pdp 
>board, which was the system controller for the network.
>
>Did some good work there, with good people, though the site was 
>eventually shut down and a lot of the redundant dec kit scrapped or 
>given away to the employees. Yet another example of a great British 
>company gone to the dogs...

I had Whitesmiths C and got it up and running again about five years
ago when I trying to work out which compiler to use. I eventually went
with DECUS C, but WWC was still pretty robust.




Ian

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