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Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net> wrote:

> And MIPS's compilers are elephantine, so it's likely that
> they had armies working on them.

Below is a response from Steve Correll <sjc@pobox.com>,
a member of the original MIPS compiler team.

John

 > You're welcome to attribute this to me if you want to post a followup.
 >
 > Today's MIPS compilers may be the product of an army, but for version
 > 1.0 there was just a platoon (benefiting, of course, from the AT&T
 > compiler front ends, Berkeley dbx, and various Stanford research
 > projects):
 >
 > Fred Chow - optimizer
 > Steve Correll - assembler, prof
 > Kevin Enderby - ld
 > Steve Hanson - f77, cc
 > Mark Himelstein - dbx
 > John Ho - codegen
 > Earl Killian - codegen, pixie
 > Larry Weber - assembler