[TUHS] Any Bell 8-bit UNIX Efforts?

[Larry McVoy]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 10:31:59AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 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.

BDS C wasn't ANSI by any stretch but it was small, fast, and available
when everything else was slow (except Turbo Pascal, crazy fast, but, 
um, Pascal.  'Nuf said).

While I had to relearn the stdio lib for real C, I did not find it 
hard at all to switch back and forth and I wrote a ton of useful 
stuff in BDS C.  Super grateful to have had it.