Post #1291692
2026-03-07 12:11 UTC
@TimWardCam You are pretty much credited with writing 68K/OS - that's awesome! And I'm honored to meet you.
I actually at one point was using the GST Assembler on my QL... but it was kinda late in my intensive use of the machine just before I moved on to an Atari ST.
Yes, programmers back then could still build full a full OS from scratch, which is not possible on modern hardware nowadays. I had a chance to help build a multitasking OS on 68030 CPUs around 1990, which was a great experience.
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-03-07 12:33
@tsturm I did much of the design, but there were half a dozen of us writing the code. The challenging bit was to find something for the boss to write that was interesting and important but not critical path, as he kept having to stop writing code to go off and do boss things.