5 Sep
2002
5 Sep
'02
12:15 p.m.
Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)update.uu.se> writes:
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
And tracing further backwards, the assembler was pheraps originally
developed in GECOS?
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* Johnny Billquist wrote:
How? It was written, of course. In assembler. By
that time, you already
had the assembler, an editor, and other commonly used system programs, so
it's just a case of the normal development cycle. Well, I have a C compiler written in MACRO-11...
C wasn't written in C at the start, you know...
Yes, I realise that! Many
people (not readers of this list!) seem to
assume that C is eternal though. From the paper that Warren pointed
me at (thanks) it looks like the only missing link is how TMG
originally got onto the PDP-7...