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[Kevin Handy]

Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
>
>>> 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..
>
>
> Slightly OT, my hands-down favorite C compiler to this day is Leor
> Zolman's BDS C for CP/M-80. The fact it existed at all was
> wonderful. Its still an amazing piece of software if you ask me, a
> lot of functionality in a tiny package. No std library but that
> was easy to write. Flexible, open (you got M80 source to the libs
> and main() support), friendly (you could call Leor at home),
> cheap, reliable, made small binaries, true standalone no runtime
> crapola ala M$ basic compiler.
>
> It should be on a short list of historically significant software.
>
>
BDS C official web page:

http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html

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