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RIP Bill. Less rememebered is that he founded Symmetric Computer Systems which made one of the first "personal" ($4000 instead of well into 5 figures). It use
by throwaway81523 5y ago
RIP Bill. Less rememebered is that he founded Symmetric Computer Systems which made one of the first "personal" ($4000 instead of well into 5 figures). It used a National 32032 processor (competitor to 68000 and was better, but no one remembers it now) and ran 4.2bsd. Its tagline was "The Beauty and the BSD" and I just found an old ad for it. Sympathies to Lynne.
- ncmncm 5y ago32032 came out long after 68000. People who needed to code for 32032 learned to treat it like a RISC, because any instruction even slightly complicated generally didn't work.
- com 5y agoI loved writing NS32k assembly. Ugh I dealt with 8086 before that and it was such a pleasure to jump over to something designed for coder pleasure.