8 Mar
2024
8 Mar
'24
5:59 a.m.
On Thursday, 7 March 2024 at 15:49:21 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 10:39:20AM +1100, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
+1. I started with BDS C in about 1980, when it came bundled with
MINCE. It took me a long time before I used a real, standard C
compiler.
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 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). 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.
Yes, this matches my experience.
Greg
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