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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First C compiler outside Bell Labs?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:24:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PkhgBQXKGxwjWsE1Yy5_EaH7qG7pAm08yZ9KshoSrjmg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wa6pzx0as.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>

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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

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 7:20 AM Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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.
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-15 13:25 UTC|newest]

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

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