[TUHS] Any UNIX With No C In Userland?

[Chet Ramey via TUHS]

On 3/5/25 9:26 AM, Henry Bent wrote:

>     This would have been 1991-1992, so we were working on mostly 4.3 BSD (me)
>     and SunOS (Brian). We didn't expect more than K&R from the compiler, even
>     though we were primarily using gcc. It was before autoconf, so we rolled
>     our own version to create a `sysdefs.h', and had code to choose between
>     POSIX, USG, and BSD versions of functions. I don't think it would have
>     compiled on anything older than possibly 4.2 BSD, and probably not that,
>     so I think your speculation about the post-V7 runtime support is on the
>     mark.
> 
> 
> I have bash-2.04 running on 4.1C BSD.

Nice! I haven't done much software archaeology like that.

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