[TUHS] Any UNIX With No C In Userland?

[Chris Hanson]

On Mar 1, 2025, at 1:51 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.


SunOS still included their K&R compiler for kernel tuning, as well as all of the header files. It was both sufficient for hacking and sufficient for bootstrapping GCC if you needed an ANSI compiler.

  -- Chris