[COFF] (TUHS -> COFF?) [TUHS] Re: Clever code
Michael Kjörling
e5655f30a07f at ewoof.net
Wed Dec 14 22:08:21 AEST 2022
On 14 Dec 2022 06:54 -0500, from brad at 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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