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Interesting. I didn’t know console’s market was so different. 90s PCs were dominated by pascal and C variants on the OS and app front, with a tiny bit of assemb
by tambourine_man 5y ago
Interesting. I didn’t know console’s market was so different. 90s PCs were dominated by pascal and C variants on the OS and app front, with a tiny bit of assembly sprinkled here and there.
- MBCook 5y agoI believe the Nintendo 64 is the first Nintendo console where using C started to become prevalent. I’m not sure about the Saturn or PlayStation. But I know the 16 bit consoles were usually assembly because they had such a limited resources.
- lynguist 5y agoI don’t know about the Saturn, but the PlayStation is the first mainline console that I know that had a C SDK and games were written in C on it. The first Nintendo handheld to use C was the GameBoy Advance which was also the first Nintendo console that had an ARM processor. It’s true that C only really took off in the 90s while the 70s and 80s are more of a proto-C era which still built the entire Unix system.