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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First C compiler outside Bell Labs?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 05:03:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7w35vqvn1k.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiW++wvW+0Z0EfFF8dJXSVk53rZm6+hYVLnW2jyM1E27Nw@mail.gmail.com> (M. Douglas McIlroy's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:29:15 -0400")

Thank you!

M Douglas McIlroy writor:
> Ditto,
> Doug
>
> Clem Cole wrote:
>> I personally am not aware of another any earlier, so if you asked me
>> that is what I would have said.  I'd be curious if you discover an
>> earlier one and the story behind it.  ᐧ
>>
>> Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
>>> Which was the first C compiler written outside Bell Labs?  I have a
>>> candidate in mind.  Alan Snyder interned at Bell Labs in 1973.
>>> Later at MIT, we wrote a C compiler for the PDP-10.  This would have
>>> been 1974-1975.

      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-16  5:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-15 11:19 Lars Brinkhoff
2021-04-15 13:24 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-15 13:29   ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-04-16  5:03     ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]

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