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[49.181.28.65]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y127-20020a62ce85000000b006e5571be110sm13775375pfg.214.2024.03.07.19.04.02 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:04:03 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Yardley Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3774.300.61.1.2\)) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 14:03:50 +1100 References: <49a32002-2b34-42a8-a7a5-acad9f1c0570@gmail.com> To: Michael Usher via TUHS In-Reply-To: <49a32002-2b34-42a8-a7a5-acad9f1c0570@gmail.com> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3774.300.61.1.2) Message-ID-Hash: LELXSXUZN6JDLOMEYSWJE5BHV66C42XL X-Message-ID-Hash: LELXSXUZN6JDLOMEYSWJE5BHV66C42XL X-MailFrom: peter.martin.yardley@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: History of non-Bell C compilers? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: At NSWIT we used the Whitesmiths C cross compiler to produce code for = some Intel 8085 development boards so we could get away from having the = students write assembler. Can=E2=80=99t remember the exact date but it = would have been 80s. We also used Xinu, Minix and Amoeba=20 > On 8 Mar 2024, at 1:26=E2=80=AFpm, Will Senn = wrote: >=20 > I don't think anyone's mentioned it, but there was Watcom... now it's = Open Watcom: >=20 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcom_C/C%2B%2B >=20 > Watcom is from Watfor which ran on the IBM 7040 back in the 60's. The = C compiler was developed in the 80's and I saw it a lot in the early = 90's along with Turbo C. >=20 > Will >=20 >=20 > On 3/7/24 5:14 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? >=20 Peter Yardley peter.martin.yardley@gmail.com