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From: rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: 4.0 What's in a name
Summary: pcc -> pcc2 -> qcc -> rcc
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.234017.9449@noao.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 91 23:40:17 GMT
References: <25731@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ
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In article <25731@adm.brl.mil> drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu writes:
>I don't believe that "rcc" is actually a
>Microsoft invention but rather is the name of the 3rd generation
>compiler based on the original portable C compiler, pcc.  I even seem
>to recall that there was some discussion of an "scc", which I assume
>would be the 4th generation of the same compiler family.
>
>Is "rcc" an AT&T derivative of "pcc"?

The paper "Four Generations of the Portable C Compiler" by David Kristol
(Proceedings of the 1986 Summer Usenix Conference, Atlanta), pp. 335-343
gives all the details.  The genealogy was pcc -> pcc2 -> qcc -> rcc.

	Rich Stevens