18 Sep
2017
18 Sep
'17
10:43 p.m.
I would bet it was the Snyder compiler.
That makes sense if it's '73. That would be the Ritchie front end and v5/v6
syntax as I remember
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Sep 18, 2017, at 4:22 PM, Lars Brinkhoff
<lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Clem Cole wrote:
I thought there was a copy on ITS at one point. You tell me. I know
it
was at CMU as I used it there. Many/Most of the compilers we had we
also at Stanford and MIT modulo differences in the OS environments.
In the ITS files from 1990, I have found two C compilers:
- C10 by Alan Snyder,
- and an incomplete port of KCC.
The KCC files seem to be from the late 80s. Alan Snyders thesis is from
1973 and mentions the PDP-10. So I wonder C10 if went from MIT to CMU
and Stanford, or if there's some other compiler which came to MIT?
There was a PDP-10 C compiler in the late 1970s, that
was kicking
around CMU, MIT and Stanford
When you say MIT, do you know if that was at the AI
lab (i.e. ITS),
or elsewhere?