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Fairchild Symbol Computer (2008) [pdf] (gordonbell.azurewebsites.net)
2 points by mpweiher on April 22, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



"At the expense of extra hardware, the Symbol computer removed ‘‘artifacts’’—introduced to improve execution speed— of conventional computing languages. Undesirable programming artifacts, for example, included static data types and type declaration."

:-)

"Fairchild’s Symbol computer had both the compiler and operating system built with hardware, not software."

8-)

"The translator hardware (compiler) operated at disk transfer speeds and was so fast there was no need to keep and store object code, since it could be quickly regenerated on-the-fly."




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