On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 07:57:24PM +0200, Dave Long wrote: >> Using modern tools as cognitive aids (so I didn’t have to >> hand-assemble) and to diagnose problems allowed me to do this in a few >> hours. It might have taken a few days in Sean’s scenario. > > Being the dinosaur that I am[0], I can partially explain why your > approach was not too far off. Early PC's might have appeared to lack[1] > development tools, but circa 1982 I had access to a microcomputer > project (eventually killed by the PC's dominance), and although self-
We shouldn't forget that Forth self-hosting was pretty widespread at the time. Total footprint of a Forth environment (e.g. on a Novix board) was under 2 k at the time. > hosted tools did appear by the end of development, all of the initial > work was done in a timeshared unix environment: sources were edited and > cross-compiled on the mini(s) and the resulting executables transferred > to the micros. No IDE's or mice, but they had full screen editors, > makefiles, and a gcc-like toolchain. Set your xterm to 24x80 > green-on-black[2] and the cross-compiling you were doing wouldn't be far > off at all from industry practice 30 years ago. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE -- To unsubscribe: http://lists.canonical.org/mailman/listinfo/kragen-discuss
