From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:52:46 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs In-Reply-To: References: <0f57f9d8248db61cba34372814d2f45e.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: <5775404e.4SiDhXtGxDXSnXal%schily@schily.net> Marc Rochkind wrote: > Bill Cheswick: "What a different world it would be if IBM had selected the > M68000 and UCSD Pascal. Both seemed > to me to better better choices at the time." > > Not for those of us trying to write serious software. The IBM PC came out > in August, 1981, and I left Bell Labs to write software for it full time > about 5 months later. At the time, it seemed to me to represent the future, > and that turned out to be a correct guess. I worked on a "Microengine" in 1979. The Microengine was a micro PDP-11 with a modified micro code ROM that directly supported to execute p-code. The machine was running a UCSD pascal based OS and was really fast and powerful. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'