On 2021-08-25 3:23 p.m., Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, 2021-08-25 at 14:58 -0400, Todd Goodman via cctalk wrote: >> P.110 of https://walden-family.com/bbn/bbn-print2.pdf has some slight >> information. >> >> It was advertised by Bolt, Beranek and Newman as the first computer >> to >> be designed around the C language. > > This says the computer was introduced "a year later" (i.e., a year > after March 1980). > > AT&T had 3B20 computers in service in the 1970's. > > Were they "designed around the C language" or was the C language shoe- > horned into them?
During the 1980s many processors used this marketing claim, including Fairchild Clipper. Some may have even tried. > > The C language appears to have been designed as a high-level assembler > for machines like the PDP-11, which first appeared ca 1970. At least > that's what the Wikipedioa article about the B language appears to say. >