8 Mar
2024
8 Mar
'24
6:08 a.m.
I believe Snyder was an MIT Master's thesis, finished in 1975[1]. There
was a fair amount of C and compiler work at MIT LCS, perhaps JNC can post
some info. I think Snyder's compiler was used for the MIT PC/IP[2] project;
the links at BitSavers imply they are related. PC/IP brought TCP and
clients to DOS 3 machines and was commercialized as FTP software and was
one of the reasons for the creation of the MIT license[4]. BDS C[3] was
done by an MIT drop-out, Leor Zolman. I bought my first motorcycle from him
:) BDS C was used for the first implementations of MINCE (mince is not
complete emacs -- those kinds of acronyms were popular) and Scribble,
downsized clones of emacs and Scribe, respectively.
[1] http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/specpub.php?id=717
[2] https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/pcip-1986.pdf
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C
[4] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9263265