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Comment by PaulHoule

I saw Pascal on the VAX (sucked) in school before I really got into Turbo.

I saw C before I started using Turbo because I had a C compiler for the 6809 using this Unix-clone OS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

on a TRS-80 Color Computer and I was checking out the K&R C book and also the AT&T UNIX manual from the public library a lot: I had a project of implementing many of the "software tools" such as wc for OS-9 as well as developing tools compatible with ones people were using on CP/M bulletin boards like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBR_(file_format)

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ_(program)

(Now I tried that last one in Microsoft BASIC and boy the bit handling was painful)

parent PaulHoule 2 years ago

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