Developing Mars lander software

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 00:49 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
[…]
> The unix toolchain did not port well to 16 bit machines. The C compilers for the 
> PC were pretty much all built from scratch.

On the other hand, the UNIX tool chain worked fine for me on PDP-11s,
which were very definitely 16-bit. Though we were very happy when we got
a VAX-11/750 and 32-bits.

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