On 01/28/2015 06:46 AM, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: > 2015-01-28 4:51 GMT+01:00 Rob Landley <[email protected]>: >> >> (Did I mention computer history is a hobby of mine?) >> >>> Rich >> >> Rob >> > > Rob, you're famous :) > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8958591
It's actually very nice of them to track down primary sources for me. (Don't ask questions, post errors...) (Actually checking my references, 1987 was the year Ed Zander started at Sun, not the year the unbundled stuff actually shipped. So apparently it took him a couple years to really screw things up...) I bumped into gcc in EMX (Eberhard Mattes OS/2 port of the thing in late 92 or early 93), and about the same time used it on the sun workstations because the "cc" installed on them by default returned a char * instead of a void * from malloc (I have no idea why) which broke rather a lot of stuff. (Or at least drowned your output in warnings.) It was one of those tools like arj and binkleyterm that and zmodem that were just there, free downloads that didn't do enough shareware begathon popups to make them unusable. (There were buckets of these, zip comes from pkzip, which was cloned as infozip by the non-dos crowd...) (I was actually looking for C compilers with available source code for another project, and found three or four of them, all of which sucked in various ways for what I was trying to do. That's why I read several dozen screens full of gcc source code before ever actually trying to compile anything with it, which is not an approach that will make you a fan of gcc. It was #ifdef salad to support obscure systems already discontinued even back then...) Alas I need to go read all of this cross-reference and adjust timelines _later_. Porting kernel to fpga update that changed icache semantics now... > Daniel Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
