30 Jun
2016
30 Jun
'16
8:33 p.m.
I understand there were a number of problems that went the other way. Motorola dropped
the ball, software
was buggy, and IBM needed an immediate answer.
On the other hand, there was
no excuse for a Pascal compiler to be either large, buggy, or slow, even before Turbo
Pascal.
On 30Jun 2016, at 10:05 AM, Marc Rochkind
<rochkind(a)basepath.com> wrote:
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.