Re:Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972)
by skissane on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:49PM
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Here’s something cool: the source code to Snyder’s compiler: https://github.com/PDP-10/Snyder-C-compiler
Alan Snyder's 1974 masters thesis [1] describes the Honeywell 6000 GCOS port in some detail. In 1977, there were three different ports of Unix underway – Interdata 7/32 port at Wollongong University in Australia, Interdata 8/32 port at Bell Labs, and IBM 370 mainframe port at Princeton University – and those three had C compilers too.
[0] https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/portpap.pdf
[1] https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a010218.pdf (his actual thesis was submitted to MIT in 1974; this PDF is a 1975 republication of his thesis as an MIT Project MAC technical report)