General Category > LisaList2

Prevalence of Lisa Workshop C?

(1/2) > >>

D.Finni:
I'm finishing writing an article for my site on early C compilers for Macintosh, 1984-1986. Among these I have the Lisa Workshop C compiler by Green Hills.

Would like any commentary from the folks here: did you use it yourself? any anecdotal stories? any idea on how widespread its use was in the developer community?

D.Finni:
I went ahead and published the article last evening. I read the manual for Workshop C. It's a shame it didn't gain much traction because judging from the manual it was a pretty good compiler.

compu_85:
Are the installers for C around anywhere? I've not looked for them specifically, but I've never come across them.

stepleton:
Are they in here? http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/Apple/Lisa/c/
This directory snuck onto bitsavers in July 2020. There's a zip with two DC42 disk images inside. I've never attempted to use them.

D.Finni: what do you think the relationship is between the two disks on Bitsavers and the one disk you possess?

rayarachelian:

--- Quote from: stepleton on June 22, 2022, 01:05:17 pm ---Are they in here? http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/Apple/Lisa/c/
This directory snuck onto bitsavers in July 2020. There's a zip with two DC42 disk images inside. I've never attempted to use them.

D.Finni: what do you think the relationship is between the two disks on Bitsavers and the one disk you possess?

--- End quote ---

Ones on bitsavers, I think, came from David T. Craig, there were supposed to have 3 disks, but one is missing because it was unreadable. I'm told it just had demo source code.

This may be a beta, not sure, and sadly it likely doesn't produce Lisa code, but only Mac code.
Would be nice to have a C compiler for the Lisa itself.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page