> On Apr 11, 2018, at 5:48 PM, ben via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
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> ...
>>> and real text screen UNIX is not aviable anymore.
>> Sure it is.
>
> I have a nice 18 bit cpu here, with only a few hardware bugs.
> Hmm would it work better if I change that around ideas.
>
> Care to point to a nice 18 bit version of unix or C.
> BTW The cpu has a frame pointer S but no S++ --S operations
> so pushing and popping wild data is not a option.
I haven't tried pcc, but supposedly that has been ported to the PDP-10, so
presumably it can be ported to an 18-bit machine too.
You could try gcc; creating a simple back end is not all that hard. And while
it makes no attempt to support non-multiple-of-8-bit machines, it can be forced
to, after a fashion. One time for grins I banged together a very primitive CDC
6000 back end. It wasn't correct but it wasn't horribly wrong...
18 bit Unix, not sure about that one. It was originally done on a PDP-7 but I
think that was before C and it's no longer around that I know of. Still, older
versions might be somewhat portable.
Does it have to be Unix? For a simple character environment, Forth is nice and
it's very easy to port to pretty much any computer.
paul
