14 Dec
2022
14 Dec
'22
6:08 p.m.
On 14 Dec 2022 06:54 -0500, from brad(a)anduin.eldar.org (Brad Spencer):
[...] but you needed to know 6809 or 68000 assembly to
create anything
new for the OS itself,
Wasn't that the norm at the time, though? As I recall one of the
things that really set UNIX apart from other operating systems up
until about the early 1990s was precisely how machine-independent it
was by virtue of (with the exception of the early versions) having
been written in something other than assembler.
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