Whitesmiths, Ltd. C Compiler
Background
The original Whitesmiths compiler was released in 1978 and compiled a version of C similar to that accepted by Version 6 Unix. It was an entirely new implementation, borrowing no code from Unix.
When Whitesmiths released version 3.0 of its C compiler in 1985 it supported the emerging ANSI C standard.
The Whitesmiths compiler had code generators for DEC PDP-11, Intel 8080/Zilog Z80, Intel 8086, Motorola MC68000, DEC VAX-11, IBM System/370 and IBM System/36. It was commonly used as a cross compiler.
The company's president from 1978 to 1988 was P. J. Plauger.
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Making the C compilers available for download
As the Whitesmiths C compilers are a very important contribution to the development of the use of the C language, I think that it is important that this software is not lost for the future.
I recieved an e-mail reply from P.J. Plauger on 3 Apr 2021 where he is positive to making the compiler available for download.
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