gnu1987

gnu1987

This are the oldest known GNU GPL Free sources from 1987 with the whole toolchain including gcc-0.9, gdb, emacs, chess and utils

The work on GNU GPL Free Software started at Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 12:35:59 EST

The oldest files are from July 1984 in GNU Bison and emacs and in gas from 1985 : Mon Oct 14 14:01:29 1985

/*  
 *  
 *	$OBJRECDEF  
 *	Generated automatically by "vms_struct Version 1.00"  
 *	Created from VMS definition file "objrecdef.mar"  
 *	Mon Oct 14 14:01:29 1985  
 *  
 */  

Most of these Free Software Foundation C source is not on the servers from fsf.org itself

This has earliest versions of:
GNU GCC Compiler version 0.9
GNU G++ Compiler version 1.21
GNU Bison parser generator 1987
GNU Bison parser generator 1987 re-compiled in 2021 and working
GNU Bison parser generator 1988
GNU Bison parser generator versions not on fsf.org
GNU Bison parser generator chinese manual in bison-cn
GNU Chess program
GNU Emacs text editor from 1985
GNU GDB debugger
GNU utilities with awk, sed, ld, ls, vi and many more
GNU assembler and gdb
GNU binutils with ar, ld, ranlib and many more
GNU malloc from 1990

This can be recompiled and works with some work

The oldest file is in emacs of the year 1982

/*  
 * @(#)nmalloc.c 1 (Caltech) 2/21/82  
 *  
 *	U of M Modified: 20 Jun 1983 ACT: strange hacks for Emacs  
 *  
 *	Nov 1983, Mike@BRL, Added support for 4.1C/4.2 BSD.  
 *  
...  
 */   

The directory gnu1988 has GNU C++ version 1.21, GNU C version 0.9, GNU C version 1.21,
GNU Bison 1.0, GNU GDB 2.5.1 and GNU lib-g++ version 1.20

In directory gnu-bulletin are the GNU Bulletins including the first one

version.c in gas assembler has this special cooment

Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970  Dennis Ritchie  (dmr at alice)  
  
	* universe.c (temporal_reality): Began Time.  
   

See also the archive of Linux kernel sources and tools at oldinux.org

Also https://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/

The vgalib directory are the only vga routines for doing 16 color display drawing as used at boot screens