[TUHS] Any UNIX With No C In Userland?

[Dan Cross]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
<lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
> 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.

I believe that was in the shift to Solaris, aka SunOS 5.x. As I
recall, even the last versions of SunOS 4 came with a bundled compiler
(though it was pre-ANSI, and probably PCC based).

        - Dan C.