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flohofwoe • today at 1:46 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Nope, they were mostly written in Assembly.

I was there, Gandalf ;)

(and note how I specifically wrote "dominant high level language", not "dominant language", since assembly coding was indeed very relevant on those machines, for UI apps 100% assembly was quite rare though, and hybrid C/ASM seems to have been more common).


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pjmlp • today at 4:54 PM

Dominant in which part of the planet?

In my part of the Iberian Penisula it was Turbo Pascal on PC and AMOS/Blitz Basic on Amiga.

With lots of inline Assembly anyway.