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