8 Mar
2024
8 Mar
'24
5:49 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 10:39:20AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, Warner Losh wrote:
Some people like to hate on BDS C, I'm not one of them. It was a very
fast compiler compared to other C compilers (Turbo Pascal was a lot
faster, I remain impressed with that speed to this day).
My memory is BDS C did C just fine, but had a very non standard standard
I/O library. I had relearn stdio when I got to Unix. But I never had a
problem with it not compiling C.
MIT had several that were used for ka9q and at
least the Venix x86 port.
They supported the popular micros of the time. Various versions of them
survive to the present day.
That reminds me: there was the Hi-Tech C Compiler for the Z-80 (CP/M); it
was full ANSI (unlike BDS C which barely supported C).