legacy-cc

The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc
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      1 legacy-cc
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      4 The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. 
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      6 These are not capable of being compiled today with modern c compilers like gcc. I am only posting these here for the enjoyment and reminiscing of the spark that ignited a soon to be trillion dollar industry. Enjoy. :)   
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      8 You guys might be able to play around building this compilier with Aiju's pdp-11/unix emulator. I havent tried building this myself so I cant confirm it works, but I posted the link to his emulator for anybody wanting to hack around with it.
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     10 Source: [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/primevalC.html] alt-link [http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/primevalC.html]
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     12 *Useful Links*
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     14 PDP-11 Emulator: [http://pdp11.aiju.de/]
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     16 Research Unix Repository: [https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/]