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By 1983 Whitesmiths was one of several vendors of Unix-like operating systems. That year Whitesmiths formed a technical and business alliance with France-based COSMIC Software. At that time, Whitesmiths published
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standard supplying several members to the standards committee and hosting some technical sessions. They were one of the first suppliers of an
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front-end for the compiler, that emitted C-language code for input to the C compiler.
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The company's president from 1978 to 1988 was P. J. Plauger. Whitesmiths merged with
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