[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 5:08 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe Snyder was an MIT Master's thesis, finished in 1975[1].  There
> was a fair amount of C and compiler work at MIT LCS, perhaps JNC can post
> some info. I think Snyder's compiler was used for the MIT PC/IP[2] project;
> the links at BitSavers imply they are related. PC/IP brought TCP and
> clients to DOS 3 machines and was commercialized as FTP software and was
> one of the reasons for the creation of the MIT license[4]. BDS C[3] was
> done by an MIT drop-out, Leor Zolman. I bought my first motorcycle from him
> :) BDS C was used for the first implementations of MINCE (mince is not
> complete emacs -- those kinds of acronyms were popular) and Scribble,
> downsized clones of emacs and Scribe, respectively.
>
> [1] http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/specpub.php?id=717
> [2] https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/pcip-1986.pdf
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C
> [4] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9263265
>

Judging from what's at the bitsavers I posted, the source for pcip and this
is the backstory to them.

Warner
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