Released my full transputer OS, K&R C compiler and utilities (1996)
Published on: 2025-10-26 17:31:47
My teen years: The transputer operating system
In my previous article I talked about how I managed to create a self-contained operating system for transputer. This included the basic operating system, a text editor, a Small-C compiler, and an assembler.
The year was 1995, I was age 16, Lemon Tree and Zombie were being played in the radio, ARPANET closed around 1990, and it started to be known as Internet, and in Mexico only a handful of people used it through Compuserve Mexico. I wasn't so lucky to have this service.
I was evolving my operating system, modifying it and improving it, recompiling and rebooting. I was pretty interested in compiling any C language source code I could get my hands on, and I got hold of several CD-ROM discs, but I couldn't compile most things because I had a Small-C compiler, not a full C compiler.
This prompted me to extend my C language compiler to support more C features. Because youth is bold, I kept doing comparisons with text pieces from the input
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