16 Jul
2020
16 Jul
'20
9:05 a.m.
On July 16, 2020 at 1:57 AM Tomasz Rola <rtomek at
ceti.pl> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 02:30:37PM -0400, Phil Budne via cctalk wrote:> I can't
make ANY assertions about version or pedigree of the files(which came to me in 1981 when I
was using a PDP-10), but they APPEARto be from Ron Cain himself, from SRI-KL (TOPS-20):
Hi Tomasz,
Thanks for the link. I had seen that page but as Jim Stephens mentioned in his reply I
was looking for the original 8080 version. Thanks to him and Phil Budne I now have it.
They separately provided identical copies that had apparently come directly from Ron Cain.
There is also a copy on github that was apparently OCRed and corrected. I am comparing
it now to the others.
I intend to create a page on my website dedicated to Small C. I will include the original
source and probably a few other interesting ports if anyone is interested. I do think
this is an important piece of historical software that should be preserved.
Thanks for finding that!
Will
ftp://ftp.ultimate.com/pdp10/c80.tar.gz
Which contains runtime files from November 1979, and compiler filesdated June 1981.By
pure coincidence I have found the page with many versions of SmallC. Just in case someone
needs them:
http://www.cpm.z80.de/small_c.html
And this one is claimed to be "SMALL C converted to the 8088 by Bytemagazine":
http://www.cpm.z80.de/small_c/smc88dos.zip
--Regards,Tomasz Rola
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