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C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines

In this article we’ll go on a journey from 4-bit microcontrollers to room-sized mainframes and learn how porting C to each of them helped people separate the essence of the language from the environment of its birth. I’ve found technical manuals and videos for this article to help bring each computer to life.
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Nov 16, 2018C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines by begriffs270117
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