Algol vs Fortran was RE: VHDL vs Verilog

[Cameron Kaiser]

> no... for a small machine Z80/6809 ect. Hmm time to change the subject line.
> How did that work back then to get software created for a new machine?
> 8080's had PLM compiled on a VAX or something along the same lines.

Hand-coded it, I would imagine. I've handcoded runtimes before for
compilers yet to be ported, created a cross-compiler, and had the compiler
compile itself for the target. Not exactly trivial, of course.

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