25 Aug
2021
25 Aug
'21
2:37 p.m.
On 2021-08-25 3:23 p.m., Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 2021-08-25 at 14:58 -0400, Todd Goodman via
cctalk wrote:
During the 1980s many processors used this marketing claim, including
Fairchild Clipper. Some may have even tried.
P.110 of
https://walden-family.com/bbn/bbn-print2.pdf?has some slight
information.
It was advertised by Bolt, Beranek and Newman as the first computer
to
be designed around the C language.
This says the computer was introduced "a year later" (i.e., a year
after March 1980).
AT&T had 3B20 computers in service in the 1970's.
Were they "designed around the C language" or was the C language shoe-
horned into them?
The C language appears to have been designed as a high-level assembler
for machines like the PDP-11, which first appeared ca 1970. At least
that's what the Wikipedioa article about the B language appears to say.