I know of Plauger as a Kernighan co-author, so I did a search on AbeBooks and found - a lot of science fiction! Must investigate. On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 3:27 PM Luther Johnson wrote: > Oops, misspelled Mr. Plauger's name, pardon me, that's "P.J. Plauger". > > On 03/07/2024 04:24 PM, Luther Johnson wrote: > > I don't have any personal tales, but I remember that P.J. Plaugher's > > company, "Whitesmiths", C compiler was an early, and influential, > > non-AT&T C compiler. > > > > On 03/07/2024 04:14 PM, Tom Lyon wrote: > >> For no good reason, I've been wondering about the early history of C > >> compilers that were not derived from Ritchie, Johnson, and Snyder at > >> Bell. Especially for x86. Anyone have tales? > >> Were any of those compilers ever used to port UNIX? > > > >