From: joemonk64@gmail.com   
      
   > If you wish to state that the very first mainframe C compiler,   
   > probably by Ritchie, was the only unique C compiler...   
      
   Ritchie didnt write C on a mainframe. He wrote C on a PDP-7 machine. It is   
   called C because it is a follow on of B, which was also developed on a PDP-7,   
   both of which were running Unix.   
      
   The (much) better systems language for the mainframe is assembler.   
      
   Joe   
      
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