From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:50:00 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Early Clones / Rewrites for TUHS archives In-Reply-To: <20171213165814.GJ26887@mcvoy.com> References: <20171212151653.1922118C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20171213165814.GJ26887@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Larry McVoy wrote: > I wrote a lot of code in BDS C, remember it fondly (even though it's > stdio was non-stdio :) I had BDS C for my Z-80 box (the Australian 128Kb Microbee with bank-switched memory), and hated it, as it barely understood C. $BOSS then bought me Hi-Tech C, and it was full ANSI, to my surprise (that's when I found the TMPFS M: drive stuff from somewhere). I ported a few programs over that way (GREP etc, but damned slow, and I'll probably get told that it couldn't possibly have worked[*]), but now all sadly lost, alas. [*] I have a long history of doing the impossible, mostly because I was the only one dumb enough to actually try it. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."