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> I was also using Norse Data systems with some OS specific to them ... In the mid 00s I had a large set of C source dumped at my desk, absent build-system, an
by Nursie 4y ago
> I was also using Norse Data systems with some OS specific to them ...
In the mid 00s I had a large set of C source dumped at my desk, absent build-system, and was asked to get it going across a few different OS. I found #ifdefs for a bunch of architectures I'd never even heard of, and #ifdef ND5000 was only resolved when I had a chat with one of the original authors and asked WTF??
A quick look at ndwiki.org (because of course that exists) tells me they had NDIX, which was a custom UNIX, and SINTRAN which might be what you're describing.
- ggm 4y agoI'd be lying if I said "yes" because its in the tape drive, the one I can't read any more because the rubber band inside my head broke. Thats the problem with old media (memory) it gets corrupted by not being refreshed, used, and too much heat.
- donkeybeer 4y agoWhat is meant by dumped on your desk here? Was it a big set of floppies or a stack of printouts?
- Nursie 4y agoHah, perhaps not that literal :) I was given a very precious CD-R(!) with about a million lines of C on it, that we had bought from the vendor of some crucial middleware we were using. Included with it were the build files for a proprietary build system that we hadn't bought alongside the source license. My task was to understand it and produce a new build system for it that would work on Solaris/Sparc, HP-UX/PA-RISC and HP-UX/Itanium, AIX/Power, Linux/x64 and z/Linux, and Windows Server 2003. It's funny how only about half of those are a going concern now!