21 Feb
2020
21 Feb
'20
7:14 a.m.
On 02/20/20 19:18, Warner Losh wrote:
IIRC, The K&R compiler was free. The ANSI 89 one
cost $$$. It was this
change in policy that caused much consternation in the Sun users
community. It happened around 91 or 92.
For what it's worth, HP-UX (for PA-RISC, at least) shipped with a free
K&R compiler that compiled a kernel specific to the box. However, I seem
to recall that it could not compile GCC so no bootstrapping there.
N.
Warner