8 Mar
2024
8 Mar
'24
8:26 a.m.
I don't think anyone's mentioned it, but there was Watcom... now it's
Open Watcom:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcom_C/C%2B%2B
Watcom is from Watfor which ran on the IBM 7040 back in the 60's. The C
compiler was developed in the 80's and I saw it a lot in the early 90's
along with Turbo C.
Will
On 3/7/24 5:14 PM, Tom Lyon wrote:
For no good reason, I've been wondering about the
early history of C
compilers that were not derived from Ritchie, Johnson, and Snyder at
Bell. Especially for x86. Anyone have tales?
Were any of those compilers ever used to port UNIX?