> it was also the name of an innovative (at that time) operating system
it was also an example of a complete system (from hw through os + dev tools to apps) which had been developed by only two people.
I thoroughly enjoyed Wirth's excuse for an FPGA re-implementation: "no commercial machines would talk to my favourite mouse —given to me as a parting gift from my Xerox sabbatical— so I built a workstation that would"
(He once gave a slideshow of the workstations he'd designed over the years, and although the displays got bigger, and the cpu and storage got smaller, the mouse remained the same...)
it was also an example of a complete system (from hw through os + dev tools to apps) which had been developed by only two people.
I thoroughly enjoyed Wirth's excuse for an FPGA re-implementation: "no commercial machines would talk to my favourite mouse —given to me as a parting gift from my Xerox sabbatical— so I built a workstation that would"
(He once gave a slideshow of the workstations he'd designed over the years, and although the displays got bigger, and the cpu and storage got smaller, the mouse remained the same...)