Re: please help me!!! I need GCC 1.0

[Colin Douglas Howell <chowell2 at pacbell dot net>]

Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> chrix wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:24:10 -0500, chrix <chrix2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Would you like send me a copy from GCC 1.0 or a less version, please I
> > > need the copy urgently I have looked for the copy by all the Internet
> > > and I have not found it,for that reason I resort to you.
>
> See <ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/old-releases>.

[I've Cc'd Jason Molenda on this, since he's the one who maintains the
old-release archive, as far as I know.]

Note that the oldest release available there is GCC 1.21.  Despite its high
version number, that release was made only a year after the very first public
release.  See the timeline here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html#timeline

GCC went through a very rapid and informal release cycle in its first year;
new releases were being created as soon as new bug reports came in.

The 1.21 release is as old as you're ever likely to find without a huge
amount of work.  You would have to track down as many old GCC installation
sites as you could find and beg them very nicely for backups from that period.
The current system operators would be unlikely to have them, so you might have
to find old operators or users who might have kept copies.  In each case the
chance of finding an old copy would be very slim.

Such are the joys of historical software research.  :)

In any case, be aware that these old releases will likely not build or run
on any modern system without a great deal of modification.

Colin