* [COFF] BDS C (was: Screen editors) [not found] ` <CAFH29toQBtYGdyis9Cbs4fzxwxrPjoVVaK40jJ9_L+0jQP7rLw@mail.gmail.com> @ 2020-02-08 0:32 ` grog 2020-02-08 1:10 ` lm 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: grog @ 2020-02-08 0:32 UTC (permalink / raw) Moving to COFF to avoid the wrath of wkt. On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 18:54:33 -0500, Richard Salz wrote: > BDS C stood for Brain-Damaged Software, it was the work of one guy (Leor > Zolman). I think it was used to build the Mark of the Unicorn stuff > (MINCE, Mince is not complete emacs, and Scribble, a scribe clone). Correct. That's how I came in contact with it (and Emacs, for that matter). Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/attachments/20200208/b31fe31c/attachment.sig> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [COFF] BDS C (was: Screen editors) 2020-02-08 0:32 ` [COFF] BDS C (was: Screen editors) grog @ 2020-02-08 1:10 ` lm 2020-02-08 2:37 ` clemc 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: lm @ 2020-02-08 1:10 UTC (permalink / raw) On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 11:32:28AM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Moving to COFF to avoid the wrath of wkt. > > On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 18:54:33 -0500, Richard Salz wrote: > > BDS C stood for Brain-Damaged Software, it was the work of one guy (Leor > > Zolman). I think it was used to build the Mark of the Unicorn stuff > > (MINCE, Mince is not complete emacs, and Scribble, a scribe clone). > > Correct. That's how I came in contact with it (and Emacs, for that > matter). It may have been brain damaged but it compiled pretty tight code. I spent at least 2 years writing code with BDS C, maybe more. Then moved to a Unix PC and never looked back (rotating disk is a lot nicer than floppies). ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [COFF] BDS C (was: Screen editors) 2020-02-08 1:10 ` lm @ 2020-02-08 2:37 ` clemc 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: clemc @ 2020-02-08 2:37 UTC (permalink / raw) As I mentioned before, I remember showing Dennis Leor's Unix clone he built with it running on a Z80 / S100 box at an early Usenix and dmr commenting he was impressed and that it reminded him of early Unix versions. On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 5:10 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 11:32:28AM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > Moving to COFF to avoid the wrath of wkt. > > > > On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 18:54:33 -0500, Richard Salz wrote: > > > BDS C stood for Brain-Damaged Software, it was the work of one guy > (Leor > > > Zolman). I think it was used to build the Mark of the Unicorn stuff > > > (MINCE, Mince is not complete emacs, and Scribble, a scribe clone). > > > > Correct. That's how I came in contact with it (and Emacs, for that > > matter). > > It may have been brain damaged but it compiled pretty tight code. > I spent at least 2 years writing code with BDS C, maybe more. Then moved > to a Unix PC and never looked back (rotating disk is a lot nicer than > floppies). > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff > -- Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/attachments/20200207/f74f16e9/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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