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> And when I say truly, I mean for platforms without file systems, or operating systems or where bytes aren't 8 bits, that doesn't use ASCI or Unicode, where NU
by derefr 4y ago
> And when I say truly, I mean for platforms without file systems, or operating systems or where bytes aren't 8 bits, that doesn't use ASCI or Unicode, where NULL isn't on address 0 and so on.
Genuine question: why do we want these platforms to live, rather than to be forced to die? They sound awful.
I understand retrocomputing, legacy mainframes, etc; but 99% of that work is done in non-portable assembler and/or some flavor of BASIC; not in C.
- jdougan 4y agoBecause they weren't necessarily awful. Because in the future we may discover we need to do "weird" things again, for performance or other reasons.
- quelsolaar 4y agoMay of these platforms are micro controllers, DSPs or other programmable hardware, that are in every device now a days, so its not retro, its very much current technology.