1 Dec
2010
1 Dec
'10
12:08 p.m.
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Richard wrote:
Looking around me :
POS (PERQ OS), wirtten in Pascal (of course). PNX (PERQ unix) was not
suprisingly written in C, though
LS-DOS/LDOS (TRS-80 OSes, written in Z80 assembler)
OS-8
OS/9 (8 bit version on the CoCo. I assume that wasn't written in C. It
doesn't seem to have been).
And doubtless many more...
Actually, What is an OS? Do the BASIC interpretters with buit-in
keyboasrd, video display and mass-storage handling count as OSes? I could
certainly argue they are...
-tony
asserted that *all* desktop and server OS
software was written in C,
so I was trying to think of other OSes (whether current or not) that
weren't written in C to drive home the point that LMW is not the
entire world. (LMW = linux, mac, windows)
Howzbout:
CP/M
MS-DOS
Amiga-OS
Apple Lisa (Pascal?)
How much of the Lisa Pascal code was still in it when the first Mac OS
came out?
Why did Windoze use a Pascal calling protocol for its functions?