[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?
Henry Bent
henry.r.bent at gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 23:42:08 AEST 2024
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 18:14, Tom Lyon <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?
>
As a slightly separate addendum, I'm curious about the slightly later
history of compilers for commercial UNIX distributions. Were these derived
from the Bell/BSD sources or were they "clean room" approaches? I'm
thinking of SunPRO, IBM XL C, the MIPS compiler, DEC GEM, etc.
-Henry
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