[Info-vax] Intermetrics 68000 C compiler for VAX/VMS

[Neil Rieck]

On Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 8:20:32 AM UTC-4, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> In article <mailman.1.1585224665.18894.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
> Jackson  <dragonwarriorxtreme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Has anyone seen it, or has a copy? Seems to be very rare nowadays.
> 
> I believe that is Whitesmith's C.  Intermetrics bought Whitesmith some time
> in the late 1980s.  I have nver used their 68k cross-compiler but their
> native PDP-11 compiler was just fantastic.
> --scott
> -- 
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Intermetrics products ended up at cosmic software (flaky name but very cool products) but I have no idea if they continued with PDP.
https://www.cosmic-software.com/
I never knew that Whitesmiths-C ran on VAX/VMS but if it did it probably didn't last long after the introduction of VAX-C by DEC.

Anyway, I still own a legal copy of Whitesmiths-C that I bought from Intermetrics back in the early 1990s. This package ran on Windows-3.11 (IIRC) and generated binaries for the Motorola 68HC11. Truth be told, I never appreciated the C language until I began programming with Whitesmiths-C

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net