[COFF] BDS C (was: Screen editors)

[COFF] BDS C (was: Screen editors)

[grog]

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
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[COFF] BDS C (was: Screen editors)

[lm]

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] BDS C (was: Screen editors)

[clemc]

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).
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