[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

Luther Johnson luther.johnson at makerlisp.com
Fri Mar 8 09:24:22 AEST 2024


I don't have any personal tales, but I remember that P.J. Plaugher's
company, "Whitesmiths", C compiler was an early, and influential,
non-AT&T C compiler.

On 03/07/2024 04:14 PM, Tom Lyon wrote:
> For no good reason, I've been wondering about the early history of C
> compilers that were not derived from Ritchie, Johnson, and Snyder at
> Bell.  Especially for x86.  Anyone have tales?
> Were any of those compilers ever used to port UNIX?



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