>People tend to forget just how long it was between the time
>C was originally developed (1972) and the time it started to
>become POPULAR (I'll claim 1987, with the introduction of
>turbo C (the 2nd commercial C compiler for the IBM PC), gcc,
>and the pending ANSI definition of the language (1989.)

I would suggest it was starting to get popular a bit earlier than that, 
specifically on CP/M systems, with Small C as published by Dr Dobbs Journal, 
and the likes of BDS C for the 8080/Z80 family. I suspect that Whitesmiths 
and a few other compiler vendors were in the picture then as well.

Small C while written for the 8080/Z80 was ported to many destination chips, 
which made a "high level assembler" available to a lot of people.

You can still get a CD of the Small C resource from the DDJ shop. See 
http://shop.sdmediagroup.com/ddj/store/


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