[TUHS] Any UNIX With No C In Userland?

Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) lyndon at orthanc.ca
Sun Mar 2 07:51:29 AEST 2025


segaloco via TUHS writes:
> Given that anything that obeys the ABI and has assembler entries to the ker=
> nel
> can request services, it seems to me it would be possible to stand up a
> user-land without C being present.  Have any UNIXen ever done this after th=
> e
> advent of C?

SunOS 4.0 or 4.1 was when the Sun geniouses unbundled the C compiler
and made it a $$$ add on.  That move single-handedly made GCC the
reference compiler moving forward.

--lyndon


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