Vintage advertisement for software development tools, featuring prices for various compilers and utilities.

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   occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 07:37:29 JST occult

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   Here’s an ad for cross-compilers and assemblers for UNIX environments.

   My favorite detail here is this brag: “Over the past 3 years, we’ve built over 1MB of working code.” Cross-compilers, assemblers, simulators, and debuggers targeting six architectures across a dozen hosts. This code was dense.

   The 80’s #UNIX wars were a wild time.

   It’s also very fun to read the articles from the time and see what they were predicting for the future. “UNIX for the masses” was a popular topic.