From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.68.69.67 with SMTP id c3mr19380182pbu.3.1410880085333; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:08:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.18.17 with SMTP id s17mr348795igd.10.1410880085206; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!r10no3299087igi.0!news-out.google.com!ef6ni2722igb.0!nntp.google.com!r10no3299055igi.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:08:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <35327cb1-1a60-4e80-896a-f91b03a0e8e6@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=KSa2aQoAAACOxnC0usBJYX8NE3x3a1Xq NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <526f8a1a-46d9-4061-a79d-b52ec03c58a3@googlegroups.com> <44d8dfcb-581f-4e84-9217-dfdde9c055ad@googlegroups.com> <35327cb1-1a60-4e80-896a-f91b03a0e8e6@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <74e15a7a-c9e1-4b8d-8cf4-39c2c0b6259e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Job opening for experienced Ada developer in Huntsville, AL From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:08:05 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:189017 Date: 2014-09-16T08:08:04-07:00 List-Id: 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