[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

[Will Senn]

I don't think anyone's mentioned it, but there was Watcom... now it's 
Open Watcom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcom_C/C%2B%2B

Watcom is from Watfor which ran on the IBM 7040 back in the 60's. The C 
compiler was developed in the 80's and I saw it a lot in the early 90's 
along with Turbo C.

Will


On 3/7/24 5:14 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?