C compilers for RSTS/E?

[Mark Davidson]

On Oct 21, 2004, at 7:37 PM, Mike Cesari wrote:

>
> On Oct 21, 2004, at 6:57 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>>>>>>> "Zane" == Zane H Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> writes:
>>>
>>>  Zane> What C compilers exist for RSTS/E?  I'm aware of DEC PDP-11 C
>>>  Zane> V1.2, is there anything else/newer?
>>>
>>> There's DECUS C.
>>>
>>>  Zane> I assume there is no way to get GCC to crank out RSTS/E
>>>  Zane> binaries.
>>>
>>> Not right now, but I keep thinking this should be possible...
>>>
>>>     paul
>>
>> I should have remembered DECUS C, I thought Watersmith (is that the 
>> right
>> name) or someone else might have had a version for RSTS/E as well.
>
> Is Whitesmith's C what you're thinking of? It was also available for 
> CP/M and
> MS-DOS. I wonder if it's available at all anymore...
>
> Mike
>
>
I may be wrong, but I don't remember Whitesmith's C being available for 
CP/M, and I could swear it wasn't available for MS/DOS either.  
Whitesmith did have a Unix-like OS called IDRIS, and they did have a C 
compiler, but I thought it was only available for "larger" computers, 
not the PC.

Unfortunately, all the Whitesmith products have vanished into the 
ether... they got bought by someone and as far as I know, are no longer 
available.

Funny, there are several products that I wish could be brought back 
from the dead, even if it was just to study how they were put together. 
  I can think of the following:

1)  Whitesmith's IDRIS
2)  CCA Emacs - an Emacs clone that was available for various Unix and 
VMS systems
3)  Unipress Emacs - the original Emacs written by James Gosling when 
he worked at a university, repackaged and sold as a commercial product 
(although I've seen the Gosling C source floating around at some 
point).

Mark