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This sucks. Everybody knows that CP/M was written in PL/M, which was its one and only good feature. It was reasonably easy to extend to various projects. Creep
by timonoko 4y ago
This sucks. Everybody knows that CP/M was written in PL/M, which was its one and only good feature. It was reasonably easy to extend to various projects.
Creepiest thing was that Nokia's massive multiprocessor telephone exchange from 1980 was written in PL/M. And CP/M also visible at operators console with floppy disk and other shit.
- macintux 4y agoA: not everyone knows. B: it’s possible, even recommended, to express disappointment and talk about the virtues of the original design without saying this “sucks”
- timonoko 4y agoBut it does suck. Downvote all you want.
- themadturk 4y agoBut it worked, so it can't have sucked too badly.
- timonoko 4y ago"Creepies Thing" because Swedish Ericsson made already their exchanges with super high level languages like Erlang. Very embarrassing, but I could not move to Sweden, because unsolved tax issues from 1975.