10 Oct
2003
10 Oct
'03
10:44 a.m.
David Betz wrote:
Hendrix always seems to get the credit for Small C but
the original
compiler was written by Ron Cain and published in an early issue of Dr.
Dobbs Journal. The earlier version by Ron Cain was quite a bit smaller
than Hendrix version.
I found the original version easyier to understand and change. The
Hendrix if remember right also had more copywrite protection than the
original. I allways found it intersting that the 8080 instruction set
had to used rather than the 8086 instruction set on the PC.The 8086
instruction set seems to Pascal rather than C based.I don't think
C/UNIX would have developed as fast as it did if did not have a well
designed machine like the PDP-11.(my only gripe is bytes are not 9 bits
wide )
Ben.