Developing Mars lander software

[Walter Bright]

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.