C compilers for RSTS/E?

Tom Jennings tomj at wps.com
Fri Oct 22 15:56:59 CDT 2004


> Mark Davidson wrote:
> >>
> >I may be wrong, but I don't remember Whitesmith's C being available for 
> >CP/M

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Brad Parker wrote:
> oh boy.  I scraped many an oxide ring off a 8" floppy running that
> compiler (and linker).  I certainly ran on CP/M.  And RSTS/E.

It and ran ran -- the problem was it didn't appear to know when
to stop!

I've long forgotten the details, and we didn't use it much since it
was so impractical. It had a lot of language limitations too if
I recall, restrictions on the CP/M-80 implementation.

("We" was Microft Inc, Falmouth Mass, Tom Campbell and Debbie
Orbach and Van Grabel, we did software consulting and projects.)



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