From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 18:37:46 -0800 Subject: [COFF] BDS C (was: Screen editors) In-Reply-To: <20200208011018.GX21264@mcvoy.com> References: <20200120155946.169b39e0.ref@sagittariusa.cnb.csic.es> <20200120155946.169b39e0@sagittariusa.cnb.csic.es> <20200129223322.GK6410@mcvoy.com> <20200208003228.GB75158@eureka.lemis.com> <20200208011018.GX21264@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: 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 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: