https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc

The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr.
https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc

Last synced: 12 days ago
JSON representation

The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc
• Owner: mortdeus
• License: other
• Created: 2013-03-01T13:58:26.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-08-25T04:08:25.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-17T06:36:12.982Z (9 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 49.8 KB
• Stars: 3,634
• Watchers: 135
• Forks: 338
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

Awesome Lists containing this project

• AwesomeCompiler - legacy-cc

README

        
legacy-cc

=========

The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. 

These are not capable of being compiled today with modern c compilers like gcc. I am only posting these here for the enjoyment and reminiscing of the spark that ignited a soon to be trillion dollar industry. Enjoy. :)   

You guys might be able to play around building this compilier with Aiju's pdp-11/unix emulator. I havent tried building this myself so I cant confirm it works, but I posted the link to her emulator for anybody wanting to hack around with it.

Source: [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/primevalC.html] alt-link [http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/primevalC.html]

*Useful Links*

PDP-11 Emulator: [http://pdp11.aiju.de/] (so i've been playing around with this to see if it still works, and it clearly has problems right now. if somebody wants to try and create like a VM image of unix running on PDP-7 hardware, id happily link to it here.)

Research Unix Repository: [https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/]