From: wkt@minnie.tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [pups] bringing up the fist C compiler
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:28:08 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209061028.g86AS8s10221@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <854rd3mr88.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> from Lars Brinkhoff at "Sep 6, 2002 10:56:07 am"
In article by Lars Brinkhoff:
> Warren Toomey <wkt at minnie.tuhs.org> writes:
> > The chist paper doesn't mention NB, which was the missing link between
> > B and C.
>
> How about this?
>
> In 1971 I began to extend the B language by adding a character type
> and also rewrote its compiler to generate PDP-11 machine instructions
> instead of threaded code. Thus the transition from B to C was
> contemporaneous with the creation of a compiler capable of producing
> programs fast and small enough to compete with assembly language. I
> called the slightly-extended language NB, for `new B.'
>
> [...]
Yes that's it!! Where did you find it?
Warren
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-06 5:35 Dennis Ritchie
2002-09-06 8:14 ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-06 8:56 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-09-06 10:28 ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2002-09-06 10:52 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-09-06 11:06 ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-06 8:28 ` Lars Brinkhoff
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-05 22:54 [pups] Bringing " Carl Lowenstein
2002-09-05 17:47 Al Kossow
2002-09-05 23:21 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 15:36 Ian King
2002-09-05 8:06 Tim Bradshaw
2002-09-05 8:16 ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-05 9:38 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 9:41 ` Tim Bradshaw
2002-09-05 10:07 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 10:15 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-09-05 11:19 ` Tim Bradshaw
2002-09-05 12:05 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 16:11 ` Michael Davidson
2002-09-09 21:17 ` Peter Jeremy
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