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On 26 Nov 2006, Adrian McMenamin verbalised:
> Partly that is a question of timing. When I went to University, back in
> 198blagh 'C' was just beginning to breakthrough to the microcomputer (as
> we called them) world - it was certainly easier to get a FORTRAN77
> implementation for most micros than it was to get C.
>
> C - like windowing systems - were exotic bleeding edge things at the
> time. At least on anything short of a mini - even then the coding was
> all in FORTRAN

A friend of mine had a K&R C compiler in ROM on his BBC Master. It was
quite nifty whizz-bang stuff at the time.

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 or BeOS... is that Emacs boots quicker.' --- PdS
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