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From: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want C compiler for RSX 11
Summary: DECUS C ran on RSX, too...
Keywords: C RSX
Message-ID: <670@ftp.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 89 13:54:52 GMT
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In article <53255@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, msnyder@schooner.cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael V Snyder) writes:
> In article <190@chiron.UUCP> capron@chiron.UUCP (Michael P. Capron) writes:
> >
> >I'd appreciate any leads to C compilers for the RSX 11 operating system.
> 
> Didn't Whitesmith's have one?

Whitesmith's sold one.  The DECUS C compiler was a freebie, tape maybe
$50.  Back when I was working on 11s, the Whitesmith's I/O library was
not Unix- like, but that may have changed.  The DECUS compiler came in
source form, and came with grep, diff, sort and other Unix utilities.
The compiler itself was written in Macro-11, but the utilities were
all C (and have appeared on many other O/Ss since).  One disadvantage
of the DECUS compiler was that it didn't handle variables defined on
block boundaries inside functions, but otherwise it was quite useable.
We chose DECUS C for our commercial work, I never used Whitesmiths.


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