8 Mar
2024
8 Mar
'24
5:27 a.m.
Oops, misspelled Mr. Plauger's name, pardon me, that's "P.J.
Plauger".
On 03/07/2024 04:24 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
I don't have any personal tales, but I remember
that P.J. Plaugher's
company, "Whitesmiths", C compiler was an early, and influential,
non-AT&T C compiler.
On 03/07/2024 04:14 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?