From: Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Job opening for experienced Ada developer in Huntsville, AL
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:08:04 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2014-09-16T08:08:04-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 12:52:37 AM UTC-7, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> > Think a little smaller. It's the Unix version they used in the Commodore 64. Really.
>
> From what I understand, Unix relies on some support for memory protection, which did not exist on C64 and 8-bit is quite a constraint in other areas of the system architecture as well.
>
> The only references I have found for such systems call them "Unix-like". I think this is fair enough and I would not call it a "Unix version".
Yeah, that was a little sloppy of me.
> Of course I agree that it is anyway quite an achievement.
Writing *any* significant piece of software in 6502 assembly is a major achievement, in my view.
-- Adam
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2014-09-12 13:29 Job opening for experienced Ada developer in Huntsville, AL Marc Criley
2014-09-12 14:28 ` Marc Criley
2014-09-13 1:20 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-09-13 11:47 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-14 5:29 ` francois_fabien
2014-09-15 14:36 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-15 14:53 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-15 15:34 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-16 7:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-09-16 15:08 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2014-09-18 8:44 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-09-23 5:05 ` Mike Silva
2014-09-16 19:26 ` Simon Clubley
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