[TUHS] Zilog Z80 Unix
Larry McVoy
lm at mcvoy.com
Sun Apr 23 10:13:00 AEST 2017
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 07:07:13AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Clem Cole wrote:
>
> > Leor Zolman had a little firm her in NE called Brain Damaged Software
> > (BDS) and he wrote and marketed a full C compiler called BDS C -
> > http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html [ which is now freely
> > available - including the sources]. ?? For years Leor's compiler was the
> > de facto standard K&R style C compiler for the 8080/z80 systems for CP/M
> > and such systems. ??[What was important, is that until Leor, the CP/M
> > community was using something called "Small C" which was a sub-set of
> > the language.?? Leor managed to get V7/K&R into a 8080].
>
> We must be talking about a different BDS C.
>
> I remember BDS C for all the wrong reasons; I can only repeat a remark
> from Henry Spencer about another alleged C compiler: "To be called a C
> compiler, it ought to at least be able to compile C." My Z-80 C compiler
> was Hi-Tech C, which was full ANSI.
I've never heard of Hi-Tech C but I am apparently more forgiving. I spent
many happy hours using BDS C. It wasn't exactly standard, the standard
I/O library was far from compat, but whatever, it was a C compiler on
a CP/M system. Pretty pleasant.
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