Amiga development (was: uVAX II Memory Board)

At 01:14 PM 2/4/01 +0000, Gareth Knight wrote: I don't particularly remember tools for Sun, but it's possible. What I do remember is that they told early developers about a Sage, 68000-based co-development system. I may even have disks with those tools on them. There was also a Lattice PC-based cross-compiler. I think I have that, too. I remember using it, or trying to use it. A dual-floppy Compaq luggable was a step above the gronk-gronk Amiga floppies for development in some ways. I was an early Amiga developer. I think my A1000 is serial number 35 or so. Once upon a time in a serial number contest on Compuserve, I think only Charlie Heath beat mine. Tripos was written in BCPL, a language created by Martin Richards, often quoted as a progenitor of C: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/Tripos.html http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?BCPL http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/bcpl.html Metacomco had a 68000 version of Tripos and a BCPL compiler, and when Amiga was in a bind, they used their OS core. I don't get too excited about foolish consistencies like the "MOUNT" command. Anyone working with operating systems in the 70s modeled parts on what they'd seen before, and that certainly involved DEC computers and OSes. I think HD0: is a co-evolutionary natural name, if you're using colons to demark volume names and you own a Hard Disk. - John