[HECnet] Benchmarks - WHETSTONE.C

[Steve Davidson]

The PDP-11 "C" compiler was a buyout.   It started life out as a PASCAL compiler.   The first project leader (J. Bishop) works for Intel - on the West Coast.

-Steve

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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Clem Cole
Sent: Tue 1/15/2013 16:27
To: Johnny Billquist
Cc: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Benchmarks - WHETSTONE.C




On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:


	he DEC PDP-11 C runs on the PDP-11, it's not a cross compiler.


Interesting, I learned something here.     As I said - by that time, I long lost interest in the 11. 
I'll have to ask around up here in compiler land if anyone remembers anything about it and who led its development.