[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-09-06, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>
> But plenty of youngsters play with Raspberry Pis - they don't even come 
> with a box!
>

Yes, but what are they doing with them ?

Quite a bit of the time it appears to be doing clever things with
user-mode applications that already exist.

At one end, I can write bare-metal startup code and hence understand
how computers work when you have no software layers between you and the
hardware.

At the other end, I can write business and webserver applications.

I can also do the full range of intermediate stuff including writing
device drivers, and system-level programming in general.

Like Scott, I get the feeling that understanding the system-level
stuff isn't as common any more (sadly).

Simon.

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