New software for a 50 year old computer doesn't appear every day. A full B compiler should be too much to ask. But despite the minimal hardware, Robert Clausecker managed this feat, and as opposed to C, the simpler B suits the 8 very well.
Details are here (PDF) & here; a video presentation is here: (link).
It's a great introduction to the PDP-8 instruction set, and how to build a compiler for it.
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Cool, goes well with the 50th anniversary of Unix.
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