FISCHER@RUTGERS.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (08/17/83)
From: Ron <FISCHER@RUTGERS.ARPA> We are about to start a project here at Rutgers investigating intelligent local system / mainframe processor interaction. We intend to do lots of neat things locally to make a nice user interface, not the least of which is a non-gratuitous window system. The project's research is going on at a nice high-level. However, being an empiricist I want to get my hands dirty working on some ideas ASAP. I have dredged up a rather nice Terak computer to do some hacking on until the project starts buying "official" systems. Since it appears we'll be using "C" later I need a good "C" software development environment for use on the Terak. This particular model is a more recent one with the 11/23 processor chip set and 2d 8 inch drives. A cross compiler running under Tops-20 would be great. A good public domain compiler would cause me to JUMPA for joy! If you have used the language you're recommending, please describe experience. Thanks for any help, (ron) -------
edhall@rand-unix@sri-unix.UUCP (08/17/83)
I set up an RJE station several years ago based on an LSI-11 connected to a UNIX V7 system. (The station ran a card reader (ugh!) and a line printer; the UNIX system spooled the jobs to and from an old, old CDC mainframe.) Except for interrupt vectors, all the software on the LSI- 11 was written in C, compiled with the V7 C compiler, load-edited with V7's `ld', and down-loaded without change using a simple protocal. Since the LSI-11 was essentially a peripheral device, licensing wasn't a problem (at least I hope not). In your case, since the Terak is a stand-alone system, licensing requirements might get tricky, especial- ly if you don't already have a license for a PDP-11-flavored UNIX. But working on your project in a UNIX environment might be worth the trouble (I'm prejudiced). -Ed