Programming and OS's

[woodelf]

Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:

 >  Which C Standard? C89? That mandates the following:
 >  a char type, minimum of 8 bits

Now they default to bloat or C++ or the 'NEW' standard.

>  You can certainly have a signed char and an unsigned char, but just a
>  plain "char" would give you one of the other (implementation detail).

I read the C-bible once ... C was clean on the PDP-11 but not so any more.
What I did notice is how improved basic hardware has defined the basic
language one programmed in. 8080/8088 languages all have seem to very
verbose and very primitve with very few operations. PL/M-8080 and
PASCAL-8088. The 6502/6800 ended primary BASIC machines.
The 6809 BASIC/PASCAL but better basic/pascal with OS/9.
Every thing else got programmed in assembler. Note this does not
cover Mini or bigger computers.
Ben Alias woodelf