Not even on 16 bit home machines, which is why any serious game, or winning demoscene entries, were written in Assembly, until we reached the days of 486 and DOS extenders.
As a read through the Amiga and PC literature of the time will show.
As a read through the Amiga and PC literature of the time will show.
Also my first C book was "A book on C", which had a type in listing for RatC dialect, like many others in those early 1980's, which were nothing more than a plain macro assembler without opcodes, for all practical purposes.
Compiler optimizations in those 8 and 16 bit compilers were what someone nowadays would do in a introduction to compilers, as the bare minimum, like constant propagation and peephole optimizations.
Just like on MS-DOS side, I did plenty of stuff on Turbo BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C (quickly replaced by Turbo C++), and Clipper, until Windows 3.x and OS/2 came to be.
Small utilities, or business applications, without big resources demands.
Was used by some parts of AmigaDOS (dos.library) and it is unfortunate.
AFAIK nothing third party uses BCPL.