10 May
2013
10 May
'13
1:29 p.m.
> Or, if a PDP-11 OR ANY OTHER MACHINE CAPABLE OF
USING A TK50, were used
> for cross compiling of ANY code that was ultimately intended to be used
> ona ANY OS/2 system, then a backuyp tape from that machine would have a
> tape labelled OS/2.
On Fri, 10 May 2013, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Indeed. I know that swaths of Sorcim SuperCalc and
SuperWriter,
SuperProject, etc. were developed using a VAX 11/730 (I was offered the
system when CA bought Sorcim, but couldn't figure out a valid reason to
own a slow VAX). I suspect the cross-platform thing was an integral
part of much early PC software.
Q: On what platform was Microsoft BASIC 1.0 written?
What was written on the label of the tapes written on that machine?