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Well this was way before the IBM PC.. Microsoft clearly had a plan in those days. They implemented all of the popular languages for microprocessors: Fortran-8
by jhallenworld 6y ago
Well this was way before the IBM PC.. Microsoft clearly had a plan in those days. They implemented all of the popular languages for microprocessors: Fortran-80, Cobol-80, Basic, PASCAL- but not C. They bought C from Lattice.
(I started with 6800 / 6809 assembly language, and then Microsoft C 4.0).
Also: PDP-10 (TENEX) was awesome to use, was a very nice development platform.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoThe PC in the comment was referring to “personal computer” in the generic sense. It is interesting now to see Microsoft going back to its roots as a provider of developer tools for multiple platforms.