30 Nov
2010
30 Nov
'10
8:59 p.m.
At 8:38 PM -0800 11/30/10, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Richard wrote:
Off the top of my head, the following were all pretty much written in
Assembly Language.
GCOS-6
GCOS-8
Multics
Vulcan
TOPS-10
TOPS-20
RSX-11
RT-11
RSTS/E
DOS-11
Of course they also mostly came before the C language. In 1990-93
while we had C on the GCOS-8 system I worked on, it was largely
unusable.
There have been a couple hobbyist OS's for Micro's written in the
last 10-15 years that aren't done in C.
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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?