[TUHS] Any Bell 8-bit UNIX Efforts?

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 6:21 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> 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.
>>
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> Hmm. K&R publication date was February 1978.  BDS C was released in August
> 1979.  So it was certainly C as known at that time. X3J11 was convened in
> 1983 and published in 1985. Doesn't seem like a good comparison.
>


I have a memory of a star trek themed illustration/poster of Bones holding
the ANSI C standard that said "It's C Jim but not as we know it..." my
Google fu is insufficient to find it though...

Warner

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