[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

[Rob Pike]

Chris Fraser and Dave Hanson did LLC and wrote a book about it, very clean
and pedagogically valuable.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Retargetable-C-Compiler-Design-Implementation/dp/0805316701

-rob


On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 11:31 AM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 5:08 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I believe Snyder was an MIT Master's thesis, finished in 1975[1].  There
>> was a fair amount of C and compiler work at MIT LCS, perhaps JNC can post
>> some info. I think Snyder's compiler was used for the MIT PC/IP[2] project;
>> the links at BitSavers imply they are related. PC/IP brought TCP and
>> clients to DOS 3 machines and was commercialized as FTP software and was
>> one of the reasons for the creation of the MIT license[4]. BDS C[3] was
>> done by an MIT drop-out, Leor Zolman. I bought my first motorcycle from him
>> :) BDS C was used for the first implementations of MINCE (mince is not
>> complete emacs -- those kinds of acronyms were popular) and Scribble,
>> downsized clones of emacs and Scribe, respectively.
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>> [1] http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/specpub.php?id=717
>> [2] https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/pcip-1986.pdf
>> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C
>> [4] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9263265
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> Judging from what's at the bitsavers I posted, the source for pcip and
> this is the backstory to them.
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> Warner
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