[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

[Peter Yardley]

At NSWIT we used the Whitesmiths C cross compiler to produce code for some Intel 8085 development boards so we could get away from having the students write assembler. Can’t remember the exact date but it would have been 80s. We also used Xinu, Minix and Amoeba 

> On 8 Mar 2024, at 1:26 pm, Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't think anyone's mentioned it, but there was Watcom... now it's Open Watcom:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcom_C/C%2B%2B
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> 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.
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> Will
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> 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?
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Peter Yardley
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