[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

[Marc Rochkind]

Larry & Dave, thanks for jogging my memory. I'm pretty sure it was BDS C on
that z80 Zenith computer. (See my longer post above.)

I should add that around 1984 I got a copy of PC/IX for the IBM XT,
directly from Interactive Systems in Santa Monica, where I knew a few
people. That was true UNIX, System III, I think, and I used it for all of
the examples for my book "Advanced UNIX Programming," which came out in
1985. It, of course, had a real Bell Labs C compiler.

Marc

On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 5:15 PM Charles H Sauer (he/him) <
sauer at technologists.com> wrote:

> On 3/7/2024 5:52 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 4:24 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com
> > <mailto:imp at bsdimp.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, 4:14 PM Tom Lyon <pugs78 at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:pugs78 at gmail.com>> 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?
> >
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >
> > It's at bitsavers:
> >
> > https://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/pc-ip/8086_C_19850820.tar
> > <https://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/pc-ip/8086_C_19850820.tar>
> > and
> > https://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/trix/MIT_Compiler_Tape/
> > <https://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/trix/MIT_Compiler_Tape/>
> >
> > are pointers to compilers from the early 80s. Obviously not ANSI-C
> > compilers :)
> >
> > Warner
>
> See, also,
> https://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/CCompilerHistory.html &
> http://www.desmet-c.com/.
>
> When I only had PC/IX on an XT at my office and a PCjr at home, I mostly
> worked with C at home with DeSmet. I still have a couple of 5.25" 360K
> diskettes labeled C-Ware, which I think are DeSmet 2.4.
>
> Charlie
>
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