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> Meditech writes all of their own languages, databases, operating systems...The founder hated C with undying passion. No one is ever allowed to use C Now you
by yourapostasy 10y ago
> Meditech writes all of their own languages, databases, operating systems...The founder hated C with undying passion. No one is ever allowed to use C
Now you have my curiosity piqued. When I went to their Wikipedia entry [1], I saw that their server only runs on top of Windows. You said they run their own OS, so does that mean they effectively run an emulator of their OS on top of Windows? And if they hate C, does that mean MAGIC is self-targetable, or there is a very, very tiny chunk of C within Meditech, or that they develop in assembler to bootstrap their emulator?
An entire OS written in a Mumps dialect and a half-billion dollar company built around it (replete with an ecosystem of consulting companies) or TempleOS [2] vie in my mind for about the same uniqueness level.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditech
[2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gods-lonely-programmer https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gods-lonely-progr...
- manifestsilence 10y agoTheir oldest of three platforms was in its own whole OS, with a centralized server and command line remote access to it. They then changed over to everything running as services under Windows servers, including a wacky append-only plaintext file system for audit logs. I used to support their scanning and archiving stuff, which mostly meant fixing the horrible layers of Windows folder permissions on various Windows versions.