So about the same time, in college in NZ we wrote a 6800 compiler for an algol like language (fit in 2k, written in assembler), to do bringup (on the university

So about the same time, in college in NZ we wrote a 6800 compiler for an algol like language (fit in 2k, written in assembler), to do bringup (on the university mainframe) we wrote a 6800 interpreter, it wasn't big ~1000 lines (cards), basically just a big case statement - it's not really a major feat, fom memory it took a few days. We called our company uSoft (with a mu), in retrospect it was a stupidly obvious name. Later on we discovered there was a US company using the same name, and they had an interpreter (how lame, we had a compiler). In retrospect they had a giant market and we were kids at the end of the world, they did a little better than us. Always wished we'd trademarked the name, it would have been worth something