Ah. Sorry. Got that one wrong. My mistake... So maybe not in the early 80s, but by the 90s, when PCs had progressed beyond the point of assembler being a commo

Ah. Sorry. Got that one wrong. My mistake... So maybe not in the early 80s, but by the 90s, when PCs had progressed beyond the point of assembler being a common language, C took off, partly due to limited resources, partly because that was what all the Big Iron folks were used to at that point.