XT 5160

[Bjørn]

On Thu, 05 May 2005 18:45:04 +0200, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:

> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
>> Erm, you seem to have left out BASIC, one version of which didn't  
>> require you to have disks to use (ROM BASIC); however, that was  
>> probably more useful on the 5150 PC than the 5160 PC/XT since the PC  
>> had a cassette interface you could use with it, which the XT lacks.
>>
>>
> Well I don't consider BASIC a programing langauge ... I consider it a  
> curse on mankind.
> I had forgot about BASIC but I was thinking of langauges that came on a  
> floppy.
> I don't think C came out until after the AT.
>

IBM C 3.0 came just before OS/2 1.0 as far as I'm able to recall. The  
first PC C compiler I used was odd - it did not have the standard function  
library, everything was slightly different. I think that would have been  
shortly after the XT was launched.

-- 
-bv