[TUHS] Re: History of non-Bell C compilers?

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/… -rob On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 11:31 AM Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 5:08 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> [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 >> > > Judging from what's at the bitsavers I posted, the source for pcip and > this is the backstory to them. > > Warner >