[TUHS] Old C compilers (was: Ken Thomson's email address?)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday,  8 May 2025 at 13:38:19 -0600, Marc Rochkind wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> For the record another source of old C compiler code would be in
>> the s1/s2 tapes here:
>> https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/1972_stuff/
>>
>> I'm not in a place to dig into them right now but one of the two
>> tapes is a V2 root filesystem backup, the C compiler should be
>> in a couple stages in /lib.  Granted, its binary, but with
>> enough disassembly work and comparison with other sources, it
>> may be possible to recreate a compelling facsimile of whatever
>> revision that represents.

Years ago (February 2000) I got the sources of a 1972 C compiler that
I was able to compile and run on FreeBSD.  The tarball should be
called last1120c.tar.gz .  I assume that I got it from the TUHS
archive, but if you can't find it, let me know.

> Seems that the subject line of this thread should be changed.

Agreed.  You, too, could have done this.

Greg
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