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About a year ago I had a look at a C compiler for 16bit computers, featured in disk form on I think Adrian's digital basement YT channel. The compiler was very
by alphaglosined 3y ago
About a year ago I had a look at a C compiler for 16bit computers, featured in disk form on I think Adrian's digital basement YT channel.
The compiler was very basic, nothing like you'd expect from a compiler even from the dragon book.
So simple and it was a production compiler too!
Sadly I can't remember the name of it to reference here.
- WalterBright 3y agoI wrote one back in 1983 or so for 16 bit DOS, too! A few years later, I was at a C++ conference where they asked me to sit on an "Ask us anything" panel. I was there along with the developers of Microsoft C, Borland C, etc. The first question was "do you still ship a version of your compiler that will run on a floppy disk system?" Vendor 1 said sure, and launched into a long description of how the files could be shuffled about on the floppy to make it work. Vendor 2 said sure, and launched into ... My turn. I said sure, and said the floppy disk version costs $200 and comes with a hard disk drive. (That was the price of a hard disk in those days.) That was the end of that, I never heard that question again from anybody. Progress...
- actionfromafar 3y agoWow, in 1983 I hadn’t even seen a hard disk in person!
- WalterBright 3y agoI had one back then, but I did say "a few years later...".
- 1980phipsi 3y agoWhat versions did you offer otherwise? I don't recall CD becoming popular on computers until the 90s.