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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Any Bell 8-bit UNIX Efforts?
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:39:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230301003916.GA15064@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2303011025390.4881@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 10:31:59AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2023, Clem Cole wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > A bit later, Loer Zohlman wrote??BDS C,??which was pretty darned 
> > good/fairly complete C implementation for the time; [...]
> 
> I'm glad that you qualified it with "for the time"; I've used it, and 
> calling it a "C compiler" was a bit of a stretch[*].  Later on I bought 
> the Hi-Tech C compiler, and it was full ANSI, with function prototypes 
> etc.

BDS C wasn't ANSI by any stretch but it was small, fast, and available
when everything else was slow (except Turbo Pascal, crazy fast, but, 
um, Pascal.  'Nuf said).

While I had to relearn the stdio lib for real C, I did not find it 
hard at all to switch back and forth and I wrote a ton of useful 
stuff in BDS C.  Super grateful to have had it.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-01  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-25 19:48 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-27  3:55 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2023-02-27 10:57 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-28 18:59   ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-28 19:03     ` Larry McVoy
2023-02-28 19:42     ` Clem Cole
2023-02-28 19:57       ` Bakul Shah
2023-02-28 23:31       ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-01  0:39         ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-03-01  1:21         ` Rich Salz
2023-03-01  1:27           ` Warner Losh
2023-03-01  2:07           ` Ronald Natalie
2023-03-01  2:35             ` Dan Cross
2023-03-01  2:38               ` Ronald Natalie
2023-03-01  3:02               ` [TUHS] IBM RT/PC compilers [was " Charles H. Sauer
2023-03-01  4:02                 ` [TUHS] " George Michaelson
2023-03-01 14:12               ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey
2023-03-02  9:05                 ` Jaap Akkerhuis via TUHS
2023-03-02 19:26                   ` Clem Cole
2023-03-01  2:50             ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-01  0:31       ` Jonathan Gray

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