[TUHS] Any UNIX With No C In Userland?

Rob Gingell gingell at computer.org
Tue Mar 4 10:02:45 AEST 2025


On 3/3/25 3:13 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> As an aside, Ken Harrenstein wrote a C compiler for the PDP-10 and a
> support library that was "good enough" to port a number of GNU tools
> to TOPS-20, including bash:

Yes, the Harrenstein C was the one we'd expected to use and were playing 
with at the time. We'd tried the Snyder compiler and one other I don't 
recall right now as well.

Glad to see it developed enough to get bash compiled, very cool, thanks 
for pointing it out!



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