> One day, I knocked at the door of Hank Smith's office at Intel. He invited me > in. > Hank was the manager of our minuscule microprocessor software group. I told > him > That I could make a compiler for the 8008 so that his customers didn't need > to use > low-level assembly language. Hank didn't know what that meant, but I showed > him how > a customer could write: X=Y+Z > and that would make several lines of assembly language. He immediately got on > the > phone and called a customer he was courting. The customer liked it, and Hank, > with > a smile, said to 'go for it.' I like corporate decisions like that.”
The 8008 was produced between '72 and '83, there were already established languages. But the manager of Intel's microprocessor software group didn't know what a compiler was? -- Jan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
