| ▲ | fl7305 5 days ago | |
> What Stallman did a decade later was great if you happened to have access to the type of computer that could run Emacs. Even then, you probably didn't own the machine and maybe even had to pay for time on it by the hour. The small machines that ran Microsoft Basic were in people's homes. No, a decade later was at the end of the 1980's. At that time, many middle class families could afford home computers like the Atari ST, which could run many of the GNU compilers/tools. It was a great learning experience porting Unix apps and games to the ST. | ||
| ▲ | criddell 5 days ago | parent [-] | |
Atari ST support wasn’t added to GNU C until 1993 with Multi TOS. It was largely the work of Eric Smith. You might be thinking of basic Motorola 68000 support which GNU C did have in the late 80’s but you couldn’t build a set of GNU tools that ran on the ST with it. | ||