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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Zilog Z80 Unix
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 17:40:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170424004031.GI24499@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170424000449.GD99987@eureka.lemis.com>

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:04:49AM +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 April 2017 at 17:13:00 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 07:07:13AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> >> I remember BDS C for all the wrong reasons; I can only repeat a remark
> >> from Henry Spencer about another alleged C compiler: "To be called a C
> >> compiler, it ought to at least be able to compile C."  My Z-80 C compiler
> >> was Hi-Tech C, which was full ANSI.
> >
> > I've never heard of Hi-Tech C but I am apparently more forgiving.  I
> > spent many happy hours using BDS C.  It wasn't exactly standard, the
> > standard I/O library was far from compat, but whatever, it was a C
> > compiler on a CP/M system.  Pretty pleasant.
> 
> Yes, I think this is a reasonable viewpoint.  It was my first ever C
> environment, and I really recognized how non-standard it was when I
> got a standard C compiler and had to rethink (and rewrite).

Yeah, there were hiccups moving but it wasn't hard.

> Am I correct in remembering that this was the compiler that Craig
> Finseth used for MINCE, my first exposure to (also non-standard)
> Emacs?

No idea, never heard of MINCE.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-24  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-20  1:42 Erik E. Fair
2017-04-20  2:54 ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-20  3:09 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-20  3:40   ` Gregg Levine
2017-04-20  4:34     ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-20  4:50       ` Warner Losh
2017-04-20  7:03       ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-20  7:32         ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-20  4:32   ` Rik Schneider
2017-04-20 13:05 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-22 21:07   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-22 23:59     ` Clem cole
2017-04-23  0:01     ` Clem cole
2017-04-23  0:13     ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-24  0:04       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-24  0:40         ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-04-23  5:14   ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-23  5:14   ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-20 21:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-20 21:59   ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-20 22:33     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-04-20 23:28     ` Pete Turnbull
2017-04-20 23:19   ` Harald Arnesen
2017-04-21  0:03     ` Andy Kosela
2017-04-23 17:58 ` Michael Welle
2017-04-20 12:34 Noel Chiappa
2017-04-20 13:41 ` Mutiny 

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