On May 7, 2018, at 2:08 PM, ajparent1/KB1GMX <kb1gmx@...> wrote:

As a bleeding edger...  CP/M 1.3, 1.4 and 2.2,  Smallc,  BDS C and even Pascal.
My copy of K&E has a Bell system cover and marginal notes from K!  I Used to call
on them back when and it was a gift, one I treasure.   However space was never
an issue as I was running hard disks before many.  I may add that system is
still in use as I can bang out good code fast on it (large library and old code
reserve) and a 10mhz Z80 kind does the job.

When I want to show the kiddies I fire up the the microPDP 11/23 (its smaller)
and run Unix V6 and show how far we have not gone.

Coding style.  I try to keep the code English as adverse to "reads like Greek".
Many many years in assembler and macro assemble if I could not figure it
out six months later either it needed more comments or I was trying to be
too slick.  So all the C I wrote/write is every effort to be plain, structured
and consistent in style even if I'm doing different than last project.  One
area is data structures shat I see these days is very hard to decrypt due
to layers of layers.  Yes, I know its C++, sometimes leaving out the ++ part
makes it cleaner other times It is handy to make it better packaged.  I'm
used to writing for small systems as in embedded and often resource limited.
Arduino feels big to me!

Oh, 64x16 must be a PT VDM-1 video or similar, Stiill have a system using that.
I've accumulated systems over the years astating with my first build back in '74.

Allison