XT 5160

[Fred N. van Kempen]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Fred Cisin wrote:

> > > I don't think C came out until after the AT.
> On Thu, 5 May 2005, [iso-8859-15] Bjørn wrote:
> > IBM C 3.0 came just before OS/2 1.0 as far as I'm able to recall. The
>
> The first IBM (MS) C compiler ("3.0"?) was purchased from Lattice.
>
> > first PC C compiler I used was odd - it did not have the standard function
> > library, everything was slightly different. I think that would have been
> > shortly after the XT was launched.
>
> ALthough it was NOT the "first" one, I kinda liked DeSmet C.  I still use
> it (now called "Personal C Compiler") to introduce my students to the
> concept of a command line compiler.
I remember using a very much UNIX-like C environment for DOS,
called "Manx C".  It was small, has the usual "make-cc-as-ld-ar"
setup, and produced nice code.  What happened to them?  This was
around ~84 or so..

--f