Re: Thunder C

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

BluPhoenyx wrote:
>  To: BluPhoenyx
> BluPhoenyx wrote:
>
> > Ran across an add in Nibble (Feb 85 pg. 94) for this C compiler, 
> > Thunder C. It came in Pascal 1.1 and ProDOS versions. Has anyone seen 
> > this software and/or doc's or have it available? I would love to have 
> > a look at it. This would make the 4th 8 bit C compiler for the II.
>
>
> Ok, ran across another compiler ad. This one is DOS 3.3 and only a 
> subset of C. It also requires a separate assembler such as BigMac.

So this one might have compiled straight to 6502 code (though it
probably also depended on a large run-time, and possibly even an
interpreter...).

> Turns out there were more C compilers available than I remembered. It 
> would be a shame if these are truly lost classics.

It would be a shame if some went extinct.  I'd guess, though, that
several of them had a very small user base, which would make extinction
quite probable.

-michael

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