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ND-210761B — C-Compiler for ND-500, version B

Status: VERIFIED (transcribed from PD sheet; not yet run live) · Install source: [PD]

Field Value
Part number 210761B
Base product ND-210761
Version B
Release date 86.10.16 (16 Oct 1986) — first official version of this product
CPU target ND-500
OS requirement SINTRAN III VSX, version >= J

Description

Compiler for the programming language C, targeting the ND-500. This B-revision is the PD sheet's own "first official version of this product" — the Error Correction / Changes sections list fixes against a pre-release build (bad floating-point constant compilation, unreported missing #endifs, large-structure debug-mode failures, sscanf() reliability, random-access write bugs past EOF, invalid debug info) plus two additions: @filename command-line-length workaround, and a new tused() library function wrapping the SINTRAN TUSED monitor call. [PD]

Prerequisites

  • Hardware: ND-500. [PD]
  • Software / OS: SINTRAN III VSX, version J or later. [PD]

  • Mass storage for install:

    User User space Number of files
    <Any> 200 pages 3 files
    <C-Include> (create if missing) 50 pages 13 files
    SYSTEM 40 pages 2 files
    - Mass storage permanent (after install):
    User User space Number of files
    <domain user> 200 pages 3 files
    <C-Include> 50 pages 13 files
    SYSTEM 35 pages 2 files
    - Dependency products: none stated on the PD sheet, but two are needed in practice: the
    ND-500 Linkage-Loader (ND-10319) for the final COPY-DOMAIN step, and
    ND-210337 Backup-System — installing the Linkage-Loader itself is
    documented as hard-blocked without Backup-System already present, see
    ../../../Installation/INSTALL-ND-LINKAGE-LOADER-AND-BACKUP-SYSTEM.md. [INF]

Release package (ND Software Library — 4 parts)

Part What it is This release
Program Description (PD-sheet) 4-page document: metadata, error/changes log, install procedure, floppy directory listing — all in one ../../../Installation-Description/ND-210761-2-EN.md
Installation folded into the PD sheet (page 3) see below
Diskette floppy directory listing (page 4) see "Distribution media" below
Revision Log PD sheet §1–2 ("Error Correction" / "Changes / Addition") summarized in Description above

Distribution media

Two alternative distribution forms — use whichever floppies you have: [PD]

Floppy volume(s) Density Contents
210761B00-XX-01D Double single disk, all 21 files (DESCRIPTION-FILE, INSTALL-10A-B00:MODE, INSTALL-10B-B00:MODE, CC-HEADER-A-B00:NRF, CC-LIBRARY-A-B00:NRF, CC-500-B00:LINK/:PSEG/:DSEG, CAT-B00:C, and 12 500-*-B00:H include files)
210761B<rev>-XX-01S, -02S, -03S Single (3-disk set) disk 1: INSTALL-1SA-B<rev>:MODE (compiler); disk 2: INSTALL-2S-B<rev>:MODE (renamed via Linkage-Loader RENAME-DEFAULT); disk 3: INSTALL-3S-B<rev>:MODE (C-Include headers)

<rev> in the single-density file names is the current revision level (printed literally as <rev> on the PD sheet — substitute the actual revision digits from the floppy label you have).

Installation procedure

Source: PD sheet page 3 "Installation Procedure", verbatim. Two procedures are given — pick the one matching the physical media you have. [PD]

Double-density diskette (210761B00-XX-01D)

  1. Log in as user SYSTEM; create user <C-Include> with 50 pages if it does not already exist.
  2. @ENTER-DIRECTORY 210761B<rev>-XX-01D,FLOPPY-DEVICE-<device>,<unit>, @MODE (210761B:FLOPPY-USER)INSTALL-1DA-B:MODE,...
  3. Log in / switch to user <C-Include>: 
    @MODE (210761B:FLOPPY-USER)INSTALL-1DB-B:MODE,...
@RELEASE-DIRECTORY 210761B<rev>-XX-01D

Single-density diskettes (3-disk set)

  1. Log in as user SYSTEM; create a new user <directory:dummy-user> with 250 pages and user <C-Include> with 50 pages, if they do not already exist.
  2. Disk 1: 
    @ENTER-DIRECTORY 210761B<rev>-XX-01S,FLOPPY-DEVICE-<device>,<unit>,
@MODE (210761B:FLOPPY-USER)INSTALL-1SA-B:MODE,...
  3. Switch to <Dummy-user>, disk 2 (renames the compiler via the Linkage-Loader): 
    @MODE (210761B:FLOPPY-USER)INSTALL-1SB-B:MODE,...
@RELEASE-DIRECTORY 210761B<rev>-XX-01S
@ENTER-DIRECTORY 210761B<rev>-XX-02S,FLOPPY-DEVICE-<device>,<unit>,
@MODE (210761B:FLOPPY-USER)INSTALL-2S-B:MODE,...
@ND LINK-LOADER
N1:RENAME-DEFAULT (<directory:dummy-user>)
N1:EXIT
@RELEASE-DIRECTORY 210761B<rev>-XX-02S
  4. Switch to <C-Include>, disk 3 (headers): 
    @ENTER-DIRECTORY 210761B<rev>-XX-03S,FLOPPY-DEVICE-<device>,<unit>,
@MODE (210761B:FLOPPY-USER)INSTALL-3S-B:MODE,...
@RELEASE-DIRECTORY 210761B<rev>-XX-03S
  5. Result: the compiler now lives on user <dummy-user>. Copy it to a real <domain-user> with COPY-DOMAIN in the ND-500 Linkage-Loader.

This product installs into an ND-500 domain (not a reentrant SINTRAN III subsystem, unlike Subsystem Package II) — there is no @DUMP-REENTRANT step and nothing to hook into HENT-MODE/LOAD-MODE. It is a per-domain-user install; every user who compiles C needs the compiler domain copied/available to them via the Linkage-Loader.

Configuration / post-install

No start command, no boot-mode hook. Verify by compiling a trivial C program per the CC-100/CC-500 User Manual (ND-60.214.01).

Documentation

Provenance & open items

  • Source: single OCR'd PD-sheet scan (ND-210761-2-EN.md), not cross-checked against a second independent scan (unlike ND-210400B, only one copy of this document was found in the archive).
  • TODO: confirm whether the ND-500 Linkage-Loader is a hard prerequisite for COPY-DOMAIN, or whether some other mechanism exists — not stated on the PD sheet, marked [INF] above.
  • TODO: this install has not yet been run live in the emulator.

Parent: ../README.md (ND-210761 product overview)