From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
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Subject: Sunchip package [was Assember in C?]
To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 07:59:03 +1100 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199803171500.KAA03862@link.link-systems.com> from Ken Wellsch at "Mar 17, 98 10:00:36 am"
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In article by Ken Wellsch:
	[ Ken confirms that the Xinu distribution for the PDP-11 includes
	  the sunchip package, which is a C compiler and assembler, all
	  written in C ]

> Chip is the "Cornell Hypothetical Instructional Processor."  It has a
> PDP11-like architecture and supports virtual memory.
> description can be found in the technical report:
> 
> To run the simulator for this machine, you need a 4.1bsd (or newer) Unix
> system. The distribution also contains a development environment for CHIP
> containing a C compiler, assembler, loader and various other tools.  To
> run the development software, you currently need Digital Equipment Corp.
> VAX computer.  However, with minimal effort, all of this software should
> be able to run on any host with UNIX.
> 
> 	[...]
> 
> ----------------------------------- end of README --------------------
> 
> P.S.  As I suspected and feared,
> 
> 	% diff -r Trees/V7/usr/src/cmd/c Xinu/src/cmd/cc11
> 
> indicates the C compiler provided in all these archives (Xinu,
> CHIP, sunCHIP) are directly derived from the V6/V7 compiler.

So is the DECUS C compiler, I hear. Is there any native C compiler
for the PDP-11 which isn't derived from V6/V7?

	Warren