From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18754 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2004 06:13:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 18742 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2004 06:13:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.pair.com) (209.68.1.20) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Sep 2004 06:13:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 36421 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2004 06:13:09 -0000 Received: from c-24-126-73-164.we.client2.attbi.com (HELO ?192.168.123.1?) (24.126.73.164) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2004 06:13:09 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 24.126.73.164 Message-ID: <415A51D4.9000904@kegel.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:57:00 -0000 From: Dan Kegel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: GCC Mailing List Subject: Re: please help me!!! I need GCC 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg01600.txt.bz2 Joe Buck wrote: > There's probably somebody out there with an old 9-track tape in a closet > that RMS wrote personally ... Nah, RMS had someone else cutting tapes. I had some fun looking through old copies of the "GNU's Bulletins" just now at http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/ http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/01/bull01.txt said in 1986: "Although I have a portable C and Pascal compiler, it has a serious drawback: it is a very large program, and intrinsically cannot be made smaller. It is also very hard to bootstrap. The problem is that most of the compiler is written in Pastel, a super-hairy extended Pascal, and it is also the sole compiler for that language. To make it smaller, we must eliminate the hair needed to compile Pastel; then we will not be able to compile Pastel, so it must all be rewritten into C." http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/02/nb.html said in Jan 1987, "I am now working on finishing a new portable optimizing C compiler. It supports the Oct 1986 draft of ANSI C and has compiled both itself and GNU Emacs." http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/03/bull3.html said in June '87 for the first time that a tape with a beta version of gcc was available. http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/04/bull4.html said in Feb '88 that Gnu C was becoming stable, had been ported to several targets, and was at version 1.17. There are plenty of names in those bulletins of people who worked on that early gcc or who distributed tapes; I bet at least one of them still has an old copy somewhere of a tape made somewhere between June '87 and - Dan -- My technical stuff: http://kegel.com My politics: see http://www.misleader.org for examples of why I'm for regime change