[ih] Run TENEX in emulation?

[Clem Cole]

Check out the directory:  historic1/brl.pdp11/usr/src/macro11
On Kirk's latest CD.   It seems to be the DEC tools made to run on V6.
 There is a modified version of the DEC Linker.
The only issue, of course, is that these are in PDP-11 assembler, so you'll
need to run them on simh or the like.  I'm not sure the relationship
between these are the ones we ran in the old days; but I do remember that
we had a linker that knew about the DEC style PSECTS.   I'll keep looking
when I get back to see what I have in my archives from those days.   But I
bet this version is close too if not the same as what I we had,

Clem
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 3:25 AM Stephen Casner <casner at acm.org> wrote:

> Noel,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions regarding UNIX-based development tools as
> an alternative to the TENEX-based ones we used in the 1970's.  I do
> have a MACRO-11 running on my MacBook, but it does not implement the
> extensions to the macro capabilities that we used widely in the EPOS
> sources and it does not produce relocatable output.  I also can use
> the UNIX V6 tools (running on a simh PDP11) for assembly or C code and
> then convert to LDA binary format with a program named atolda, similar
> to what your group did.  That was how the folks at Lincoln Lab
> developed EPOS-based gateway software for the Wideband Satellite
> Network.  I could also make an a.out loader for EPOS as an
> alternative like your group later did.
>
> The most sorely missed piece is the Link11 linker.  It allowed
> configuration of PSECTs into multiple address spaces.  It also
> produced symbol tables in an exended format for out debugger.  In
> theory I could reimplement such a linker from scratch, and perhaps in
> less time than it would take to search for the original tools, but I
> don't have a spec for it.
>
>                                                         -- Steve
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