[Coco] Looking for rma or r63 source.

[Bill Nobel]

RMA and rlink are direct replacements for c.asm and c.link (they are the same).  I acquired these years ago from an archive I can’t remember (maybe from Princeton archive). The c.comp module preps the source code for these 2 to complete the compile.

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> On Dec 6, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Stephen Fischer <SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> Just those two?
> 
> Likely as "RMA" and "RLINK" were in the "Development System" and not the original "C" Compiler package.
> 
> Bill Pierce made a webpage with information about the "C" Compiler, a good part of that webpage is outdated!
> 
> No Source is listed, where did you get "RMA" and "RLINK" source?
> 
> Perhaps sending the source to Guillaume Major and suggesting that the "C" Compiler needs a directory of source.
> 
> SHF
> 
> 
>> On 12/6/2019 11:05 AM, Bill Nobel wrote:
>> I have RMA and RLINK sources, but not R63.   It is the full C source code.  They may give you something to work with.  I do know that they need to be updated as they are still pre Y2K so make goofs up on checking dates and times for recompile. I also have the source to a updated make that adds some features the original make did not have.
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>>> On Dec 6, 2019, at 12:38 PM, Stephen Fischer <SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The only possible location of the original "C" Compiler source might be Bill Pierce. But I remember a couple of disasters causing it to be lost.
>>> 
>>> Try contacting him directly for information.
>>> 
>>> Other than building a Time Machine and going to Des Moines about the last time I was there (Boy there were lots of signs offering some meat product on the way into town.) and breaking in and stealing the archive.
>>> 
>>> The one attempt I made to obtain a computer that the source might have been that had passed hands was met here with such violence it was really unbelievable.
>>> 
>>> People shoot themselves in the heart here sometimes, and innocent bystanders quite often.
>>> 
>>> SHF
>>> 
>>>> On 12/5/2019 10:24 PM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
>>>> Damn, I was hoping that would contain source instead of a disassembly.
>>>> I have some compiler source, and once I get it producing "correct"
>>>> code, I'd like to have the original assembler to put the results
>>>> together.
>>>> The code the compiler produces works, but has a slightly different
>>>> (more efficient, actually) calling convention from the libraries we
>>>> have available, so the binaries it produces don't run correctly;
>>>> hacking the compiler to use the old calling convention seems like
>>>> it'll be easier than modifying and recompiling all the old libraries,
>>>> so that's my approach.
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 1:04 AM Stephen Fischer <SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I must be on your kill list, I gave Guillaume Major the two programs you
>>>>> asked for before and posted their location here.
>>>>> 
>>>>> He placed r63 here:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Programming/Source/R63/R63%20(David%20Breeding).zip
>>>>> 
>>>>> I made a statement that we have source for all of the "C" Compiler, I
>>>>> will need to think and search my files for "rma".
>>>>> 
>>>>> It may be Bill Pierce that has modified the single pass "C" Compiler who
>>>>> has "rma" source.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, "r63" appears to have been written in "C".
>>>>> 
>>>>> SHF
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 12/5/2019 9:37 PM, Walter Zambotti wrote:
>>>>>> Does anyone know if source exists for rma or r63?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm hoping it is written in C as this will make it more useful to me.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Walter
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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