[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday,  7 March 2024 at 15:49:21 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 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

+1.  I started with BDS C in about 1980, when it came bundled with
MINCE.  It took me a long time before I used a real, standard C
compiler.

> 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.

Yes, this matches my experience.

Greg
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