[TUHS] On the uniqueness of DMR's C compiler

[Michael Kjörling]

On 7 May 2024 21:59 +0100, from pnr at planet.nl (Paul Ruizendaal):
> It seems to me that these papers rather understate the importance of
> generating good quality code. As far as I can tell, BCPL and BLISS
> came close, but were too large to run on a PDP-11 and only existed
> as cross-compilers.

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/BCPL/index.html#York
appears to indicate that by 1974 there existed a native PDP-11 (/40 or
/45) BCPL compiler which ran under RSX-11.

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