[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

[Larry McVoy]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 10:39:20AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > MIT had several that were used for ka9q and at least the Venix x86 port. 
> > They supported the popular micros of the time. Various versions of them 
> > survive to the present day.
> 
> That reminds me: there was the Hi-Tech C Compiler for the Z-80 (CP/M); it 
> was full ANSI (unlike BDS C which barely supported C).

Some people like to hate on BDS C, I'm not one of them.  It was a very
fast compiler compared to other C compilers (Turbo Pascal was a lot 
faster, I remain impressed with that speed to this day).

My memory is BDS C did C just fine, but had a very non standard standard
I/O library.  I had relearn stdio when I got to Unix.  But I never had a
problem with it not compiling C.