Odd cpu lengths

[Rich Alderson]

From: bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:27 PM

> But when you think of it, most develpment on the small 8 bit micros
> were done by hand ... ie Apple integer basic or cross compiled on a
> larger machine PDP-10? under Fortran IV.  PL/M for the 8080 comes to
> mind.

I forget:  Was Apple Integer BASIC a Microsoft product, or homegrown?
All of Microsoft's language products until well into the 1980s were
developed in Macro-10 on DECsystem-10 (PDP-10) processors; a friend of
mine was one of the toolset developers (badge #11).  No FORTRAN was
involved.

Thanks,
Rich

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