Developing Mars lander software

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 19 February 2014 at 08:49:36 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> On 2/19/2014 12:25 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Regarding the last point, I read somewhere that lint was 
>> actually
>> supposed to be part of C toolchain, but when most people tried 
>> to
>> port C to home computers it was highly overlooked, hence the
>> situation we got into with C.
>
> The unix toolchain did not port well to 16 bit machines. The C 
> compilers for the PC were pretty much all built from scratch.

Thanks for the info.