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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Early Internet work (Was: History of select(2))
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:37:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170130133750.GB32068@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701302354090.38837@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:13:48AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2017, Clem Cole wrote:
> 
> > That said, is you want a goos starting??point the best C compiler for the 
> > 8080 was the Leor Zolman's "Brain Damaged Software" C -- aka BDS C. ?? 
> > Which he has put in the public Domain: 
> > ????http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html
> 
> Talk about brain-damaged software...  BDS C is irretrievably broken, with 
> all sorts of things missing.  

I dunno, I wrote a lot of code with it.  It felt enough like C to me.
At the time, I believe it was the fastest CPM C compiler you could get.
That was a big part of why I used it.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-30 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-29 17:41 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-29 20:28 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-01-30  1:34 ` Nick Downing
2017-01-30  2:19   ` Clem Cole
2017-01-30  2:30     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-30  2:43       ` Ron Natalie
2017-01-30  2:43       ` Clem Cole
2017-01-30  2:32     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-30  2:39       ` Clem Cole
2017-01-30 13:13     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-01-30 13:37       ` Larry McVoy [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-01-30 16:15 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-30 16:41 ` Clem Cole
2017-01-30 16:44 ` Clem Cole
2017-01-30 15:34 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-30 21:20 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-01-30  2:50 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-30  3:33 ` Nick Downing
2017-01-30  3:38   ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-08  3:58   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-01-30  8:26 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-01-30  1:44 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-29 18:35 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-16 15:17 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-16 14:42 Noel Chiappa
     [not found] <mailman.1.1484532001.2693.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-01-16 10:21 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-01-16  1:47 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-16 10:06 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-01-16  1:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-16 10:31 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-01-16 12:07 ` Tony Finch
2017-01-15  2:30 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-13 13:19 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-09  2:35 [TUHS] History of select(2) Warren Toomey
2017-01-09 10:36 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-01-12  3:54   ` Clem Cole
2017-01-13  9:13     ` Paul Ruizendaal
     [not found]       ` <20170114164102.GA31665@yeono.kjorling.se>
2017-01-16  0:13         ` [TUHS] Early Internet work (Was: History of select(2)) Paul Ruizendaal

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