Circa 1986 I was working at the Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University.
As late as that we were still running CP/M on an eclictic mix of Imsai8080 and STD Bus based machines. These were all running laboratory experiments. Turbo Pascal was king in that environment. C compilers were just way too weird to even consider. Even when we started rilling out IBM PC's in about 1988, we still used Turbo Pascal. Re compiling apps for the new platform was magic... When I left there and moved into a small packet switching hardware developed in the mid 90s, we used Turbo pascal for the PC side of any interface, and Cross compiled C for the 68000/010/020 based hardware plug in line controllers. Everything was hosted in a custom VME rack system running Unix. C didn't enter my world until I started running FreeBSD in the late 90's where it was essentially part of the OS. I remember paying $600 bucks AUD for a Borland C compiler running under Windows, but the whole concept of writing a simple app was insane. Now I use C and C++ regularly for small microcomputers, but still not on my CP/M systems. Doug On Sat, 11 May 2024, 5:01 am Chuck Guzis via cctalk, <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > There have been some minor skirmishes in the MCU world over what > language should be used when programming. > > C/C++ is very much top dog, probably because the development suites are > written for that. > > There's a small group that advocates Python; and some say that Ada is > best. But they represent a very small segment. > > --Chuck > >
