In 1983, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. X3J11 based the C standard on the Unix implementation; however, the non-portable portion of the Unix C library was handed off to the IEEE working group 1003 to become the basis for the 1988 POSIX standard.
=== ANSI C in ISO C ===V poznih 1970-ih in 1980-ih so izvedli različice C-ja za širok razpon osrednjih računalnikov, miniračunalnikov in mikroračunalnikov, vključno z osebnim računalnikom IBM PC, saj se je tedaj njegova priljubljenost zelo povečala.