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]
Bj?rn 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