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A few years ago I had to work with an obscure 90's era embedded microcontroller with a proprietary language and IDE, and a serial adapter based programmer and d
by sgtnoodle 3y ago
A few years ago I had to work with an obscure 90's era embedded microcontroller with a proprietary language and IDE, and a serial adapter based programmer and debugger. The IDE sucked, and programming would fail 9 times out of 10, but at least the debugger was solid.
By complete chance, I happened to interview someone that had, "wrote the debugger for that obscure microcontroller back in the 90's," tucked away in their resume. It was hard not to spend the entire interview session just picking their brain for anecdotes about it.
- OJFord 3y agoYou were interviewing them for an unrelated role? Just trying to understand why that would be 'complete chance' and that you (by the sounds of it) didn't hire them to keep picking their brain on it.
- sgtnoodle 3y agoThe role, although also in the field of embedded software development, was indeed unrelated to that particular technology or its use within the company.
- myth2018 3y agoWas it some MCU from Rabbit Semiconductor?