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Subject: Re: New VSI blog post
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 16:30:03 -0400
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On 8/1/2024 4:27 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <v8ghb3$29clv$1@dont-email.me>, davef@tsoft-inc.com (Dave
> Froble) wrote:
>> On 8/1/2024 7:16 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> I am not sure when DEC C 4.0 shipped, but given that
>>> VAX C never existed on Alpha, then together with the first
>>> VMS Alpha release in 1992 seems like a good guess.
>> I'm pretty sure DEC C was on VAX before Alpha was available.
> 
> Archive.org has a scan of the first edition of the manual "Programming in
> VAX C", dated 1982.
> <https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_decvaxlangnginVAXC1.0198205_22179199/page/n3/mode/2up>

VAX C 3.x is obviously older than DEC C 4.0, but VAX C was not ANSI/ISO C.

Arne