8 Mar
2024
8 Mar
'24
5:52 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 4:24 PM Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, 4:14 PM Tom Lyon <pugs78(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's at bitsavers:
https://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/pc-ip/8086_C_19850820.tar
and
https://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/trix/MIT_Compiler_Tape/
are pointers to compilers from the early 80s. Obviously not ANSI-C
compilers :)
Warner
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?
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.