[TUHS] Any Bell 8-bit UNIX Efforts?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Mar 1 09:31:59 AEST 2023


On Tue, 28 Feb 2023, Clem Cole wrote:

[...]

> A bit later, Loer Zohlman wrote BDS C, which was pretty darned 
> good/fairly complete C implementation for the time; [...]

I'm glad that you qualified it with "for the time"; I've used it, and 
calling it a "C compiler" was a bit of a stretch[*].  Later on I bought 
the Hi-Tech C compiler, and it was full ANSI, with function prototypes 
etc.

[*]
I think it was Henry Spencer who said (in relation to some other product): 
"Somehow, to be called a C compiler it ought to at least be able to 
compile C".

-- Dave


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