From: Luther Johnson <luther.johnson@makerlisp.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: History of non-Bell C compilers?
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:56:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a356ce42-779b-ae35-19fe-7e7844b83c86@makerlisp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240307234921.GO2252@mcvoy.com>
Speaking of the CP/M and later DOS world, Aztec C was a very competent C
compiler. I recently put together a CP/M environment, and used the
latest version I could find of Aztec C, and it did just what I wanted it
to do.
On 03/07/2024 04:49 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 10:39:20AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>> MIT had several that were used for ka9q and at least the Venix x86 port.
>>> They supported the popular micros of the time. Various versions of them
>>> survive to the present day.
>> That reminds me: there was the Hi-Tech C Compiler for the Z-80 (CP/M); it
>> was full ANSI (unlike BDS C which barely supported C).
> Some people like to hate on BDS C, I'm not one of them. It was a very
> fast compiler compared to other C compilers (Turbo Pascal was a lot
> faster, I remain impressed with that speed to this day).
>
> My memory is BDS C did C just fine, but had a very non standard standard
> I/O library. I had relearn stdio when I got to Unix. But I never had a
> problem with it not compiling C.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-07 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-07 23:14 [TUHS] " Tom Lyon
2024-03-07 23:24 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2024-03-07 23:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-07 23:49 ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-07 23:56 ` Luther Johnson [this message]
2024-03-08 14:03 ` John Foust via TUHS
2024-03-07 23:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-03-08 0:08 ` Rich Salz
2024-03-08 0:30 ` Warner Losh
2024-03-08 0:57 ` Rob Pike
2024-03-08 1:08 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-03-08 1:10 ` Rob Pike
2024-03-08 1:12 ` Rob Pike
2024-03-08 1:22 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-03-08 9:33 ` arnold
2024-03-08 9:45 ` Wesley Parish
2024-03-08 13:06 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-08 18:33 ` William H. Mitchell
2024-03-10 3:14 ` Adam Thornton
2024-03-11 22:21 ` Phil Budne
2024-03-07 23:52 ` Warner Losh
2024-03-08 0:15 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2024-03-08 0:30 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-08 0:54 ` Heinz Lycklama
2024-03-08 1:48 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-03-08 2:12 ` Tom Lyon
2024-03-08 2:13 ` Lawrence Stewart
2024-03-08 3:15 ` Jonathan Gray
2024-03-07 23:24 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-07 23:27 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-07 23:44 ` Tom Lyon
2024-03-08 0:24 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-08 1:27 ` Jeffry R. Abramson
2024-03-10 2:13 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-03-08 2:26 ` Will Senn
2024-03-08 3:03 ` Peter Yardley
2024-03-08 3:28 ` George Michaelson
2024-03-08 3:58 ` Luther Johnson
2024-03-08 5:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2024-03-08 13:42 ` Henry Bent
2024-03-08 14:00 ` arnold
2024-03-08 14:16 ` Warner Losh
2024-03-08 15:44 ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-08 17:18 ` Adam Thornton
2024-03-10 2:31 ` Damian Wildie
2024-03-11 17:12 Paul Ruizendaal
2024-03-11 20:44 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-11 22:28 ` Peter Yardley
2024-03-12 0:30 ` ron minnich
2024-03-12 13:31 ` Larry Stewart
2024-03-12 16:41 ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-12 14:55 ` Henry Bent
2024-03-12 17:17 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-13 14:37 ` Clem Cole
2024-03-13 15:28 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-13 15:33 ` Warner Losh
2024-03-13 15:53 ` Clem Cole
2024-03-12 15:42 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2024-03-12 23:08 Steve Simon
[not found] <aee297f1-2f6a-4620-87f7-f1672ae03b61@osta.com>
2024-03-15 3:34 ` Heinz Lycklama
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