From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:05:53 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] nm on Third Edition .o files?' Message-ID: <20161220130553.15FDC18C098@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: Tony Finch > when did C get its cast operator? Well after that piece of code was written! :-) I don't recall exactly off the top of my head, but I recall 2-3 notes to users about the evolution of C post 'vanilla' V6; I think a lot of it was related to work being done on typetting stuff, hence the moniker 'phototypsetter compiler' which was applied to that 'improved' C. One of the notes is fairly common, but another I have only in hardcopy (although I scanned it at one point). I'll try and turn all of them, along with some notes I made about the differences between 'vanilla' V6 C and 'phototypsetter C' (which a lot of the later V6 users started with - I certainly did), into an article on the Computer History wiki on the early evolution of C. Noel