30 Jun
2016
30 Jun
'16
9:52 p.m.
Marc Rochkind <rochkind(a)basepath.com> wrote:
Bill Cheswick: "What a different world it would
be if IBM had selected the
M68000 and UCSD Pascal. Both seemed
to me to better better choices at the time."
Not for those of us trying to write serious software. The IBM PC came out
in August, 1981, and I left Bell Labs to write software for it full time
about 5 months later. At the time, it seemed to me to represent the future,
and that turned out to be a correct guess.
I worked on a "Microengine" in 1979.
The Microengine was a micro PDP-11 with a modified micro code ROM that directly
supported to execute p-code.
The machine was running a UCSD pascal based OS and was really fast and powerful.
Jörg
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