The PDP-11 "C" compiler was a buyout. It started life out as a PASCAL compiler. The first project leader (J. Bishop) works for Intel - on the West Coast. -Steve ________________________________ From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Clem Cole Sent: Tue 1/15/2013 16:27 To: Johnny Billquist Cc: hecnet at update.uu.se Subject: Re: [HECnet] Benchmarks - WHETSTONE.C On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: he DEC PDP-11 C runs on the PDP-11, it's not a cross compiler. Interesting, I learned something here. As I said - by that time, I long lost interest in the 11. I'll have to ask around up here in compiler land if anyone remembers anything about it and who led its development.