C Expert Programming Chapter 1 C: Through the Fog of Time and Space 1.5 ANSI C Today

/*Mirosoft made a C compiler for IBM chips and introduced several new keywords (far, near, etc.) to help
*Pointers handle the irregular architecture of Intel80*86 chips
*/

/*For that matter, anyone learning or using C should use ANSI C, not K&R C
*/

/*When: 1989.12
*Who: International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
*Event: The ANSI standard was adopted (unpleasantly, it removed the very useful 'Rationale' section)
*/

/*The official name of the C language standard is ISO/IEC 9899:1990.
*The C language standard
*The Annotated ANSI C Standard by Herbert Schildt
*ANSI C alsoIs a European standard (CEN 29899) and X/Open standard
*ANSI C was adopted as Federal Information Processing Standard (Federal Information Processing Standard), named FIPS160.
*/

Good Books:

The Annotated ANSI C Standard
The C Programming Language
Dennis Ritchie The C Reference Manual
Appendix A of The C Programming Language