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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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Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2018
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2018 | C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines by begriffs | 270 | 117 |
| Feb 21, 2022 | C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines by rsecora | 154 | 99 |