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From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
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Subject: Real Origin of the DECUS C Compiler?
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In-Reply-To: <199803172238.RAA24010@link.link-systems.com> from Ken Wellsch at "Mar 17, 98 05:38:12 pm"
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In article by Ken Wellsch:
> I wasn't aware the DECUS C compiler (written in assembler) took anything
> from V6 and/or V7 but I may well be wrong.  The DECUS C stuff had a
> special interest to me back in the Waterloo days because I believe
> a former U of Waterloo person wrote it long ago...

Hmm, that's what I'd heard. Perhaps the person who told me this was wrong.
Can anybody tell us the correct origins of the DECUS C compiler?

	Warren

