ND-10760A — C-Compiler for ND-100, version A¶

Status: IN-PROGRESS — install procedure read verbatim off the real floppies · Install source: [MODE]

Field	Value
Part number	`10760A00` (as printed on the floppy volume labels; whether `00` is a revision digit or part of the version tag is not confirmed — no PD sheet to check against)
Base product	`ND-10760`
Version	A
Release date	files on disk are dated 1984-03-26 (compiler banks, headers) and 1984-11-26 (linked `:PROG` images) — no PD sheet to confirm an official release date
CPU target	ND-100
OS requirement	unknown — no PD sheet

Description¶

CC-100, the ND-100 C compiler. Ships as a two-disk set. INSTALL-1:MODE, INSTALL-2:MODE, and CSESSION:MODE were extracted from the actual floppy images (downloaded from the ND floppy library by MD5 hash and read with ndtool) and decoded — SINTRAN mode/command files on this media are stored with the high bit set on every byte; masking it off (byte & 0x7F) recovers plain text. [MODE]

Prerequisites¶

Not stated on the floppy (no PD sheet exists for this product). Two are inferred from the install script itself: - A user named C-INCLUDE must exist to receive the header files (see procedure below) — this mirrors the CC-500 PD sheet's explicit <C-Include> user requirement, which is a strong cross-check that this reading of the script is correct. - Both INSTALL-1:MODE and INSTALL-2:MODE open with @BACKUP-SYSTEM — see ND-210337 Backup-System, which must already be installed. [INF]

Distribution media¶

Floppy volume	Contents
`10760A00-1`	`100-FCNTL:H`, `100-SETJMP:H`, `100-VARARGS:H`, `100-CTYPE:H`, `100-ERRNO:H`, `100-MATH:H`, `100-STDIO:H` (7 C-Include headers) · `CC-COM-100:PROG` (112 pages) · `CC-BRF-100:PROG` (14 pages) · `INSTALL-1:MODE`
`10760A00-2`	`CC-1BANK-A:BRF`, `CC-2BANK-A:BRF` (compiler code, bank 1 + bank 2) · `CC-1HEADER-A:BRF`, `CC-2HEADER-A:BRF`, `CC-1TRAILER-A:BRF`, `CC-2TRAILER-A:BRF` (NRL link header/trailer per bank) · `CC-100-A:PROG` (51 pages — the compiler program itself) · `CAT:C` (example C source) · `CSESSION:MODE` (worked compile+link example) · `INSTALL-2:MODE`

Confirmed directly by mounting both images with ndtool -t — file names, sizes, and dates match the file listing exactly.

Installation procedure¶

Disk 1 — `INSTALL-1:MODE`, decoded verbatim `[MODE]`¶

@BACKUP-SYSTEM
COPY
DIR

C-INCLUDE
DIR
10760A00-1
FLOPPY-USER
:H
L
COPY
DIR


DIR
10760A00-1
FLOPPY-USER
:PROG
L
EXIT

Disk 2 — `INSTALL-2:MODE`, decoded verbatim `[MODE]`¶

@BACKUP-SYSTEM
COPY
DIR


DIR
10760A00-2
FLOPPY-USER
:BRF
L
COPY
DIR


DIR
10760A00-2
FLOPPY-USER
:PROG
L
EXIT

Reading of the script `[INF — BACKUP-SYSTEM's own User Guide, ND-60.250, is not in this repo, so exact prompt wording is not cross-checked]`¶

Both scripts drive @BACKUP-SYSTEM's interactive COPY dialog twice, once per file-type group. Each COPY answers a fixed sequence of prompts: source type (DIR = the currently entered floppy directory), destination user (blank = your current logged-in user; an explicit name if given), then the source directory name, source user, a file-type filter, and a trailing flag (L). Reading disk 1 that way:

Copy the :H header files into a separate user C-INCLUDE (must exist first — same requirement as CC-500's install sheet). Source: directory 10760A00-1, user FLOPPY-USER, type :H.
Copy the :PROG files (CC-COM-100, CC-BRF-100) to the default/current user (no destination user given) — i.e. wherever you are logged in when you run this, typically SYSTEM per the convention used elsewhere in this repo's install docs.

Disk 2 copies both its :BRF files (the compiler's linkable object banks) and its :PROG file (CC-100-A, the runnable compiler) to the default/current user — no C-INCLUDE step here, since disk 2 carries no headers.

Procedure to run, in your own words: enter the 10760A00-1 floppy directory, run INSTALL-1:MODE (creates the header set under C-INCLUDE and the two :PROG support files under your working user), swap to the 10760A00-2 floppy, enter that directory, run INSTALL-2:MODE (copies the compiler's :BRF banks and the runnable CC-100-A:PROG).

Verifying the install — `CSESSION:MODE`, decoded verbatim `[MODE]`¶

Disk 2 also carries a worked compile-and-link example, effectively the product's own smoke test:

@CC-100 CAT:C
@NRL
IMAGE 100
PROG-FILE "CAT"
LOAD CC-2HEADER
LOAD CAT
LOAD CC-2BANK
LOAD CC-2TRAILER
EXIT

This compiles the shipped CAT:C example with CC-100, then links it via NRL (the same relocating loader used throughout this repo's generic install methodology, see ../../INSTALL-METHODOLOGY.md §3–4) against CC-2HEADER, CC-2BANK (the bank-2 runtime library — as opposed to bank 1, which builds the compiler itself), and CC-2TRAILER, producing a CAT:PROG. Running this after install and getting a working CAT program is the closest thing this product has to a documented verification step.

Configuration / post-install¶

No start command, no boot-mode hook — this is a per-user compiler install, not a resident subsystem. No @DUMP-REENTRANT step is present in either script.

Documentation¶

PD-sheet: not located
PI-sheet: not located
Manual(s): ND-60.214.01 CC-100 and CC-500 C-Compiler User Manual
NDWIKI: not checked yet

Provenance & open items¶

Source: both floppy images downloaded from the ND floppy library (https://ndlib.hackercorp.no/images/<md5>.img, hashes f5b0746106fe7355fba5634d35b0cb4a for 10760A00-1 and 4bf30edb5e1ed89038fc1e23e2b9e57b for 10760A00-2) and read with ndtool (E:\Dev\Ronny\norskdata-ndfs\ndfs-c\build_win\ndtool.exe). INSTALL-1:MODE, INSTALL-2:MODE, CSESSION:MODE decoded by masking the high bit off every byte (byte & 0x7F) — this is SINTRAN's standard packed-text encoding for command files on this media, not a guess: the result is clean, grammatical SINTRAN command syntax with no artifacts.
TODO: the exact meaning of the DIR/blank/L tokens in the BACKUP-SYSTEM COPY dialog is read from context (cross-checked against CC-500's PD sheet requiring the same <C-Include> user), not from the BACKUP-SYSTEM User Guide (ND-60.250), which is not in this repo. If that manual turns up, re-verify the field-by-field prompt labels.
TODO: confirm the ND-10760 article number against a real PD/PI sheet if one turns up.
TODO: this install has not yet been run live in the emulator.

Parent: ../README.md (ND-10760 product overview)