AaronNGray

I have been interested in computing since 1979 at te age of 13 when I saw an Elector Magazine with a circuit diagram and CPU layout and instructionset for a 16bit Key and Lamp Unit. I then got an Acorn ATOM (The company who later formed ARM), wrote a disassembler in BASIC , disassembled its ROM, printed out on fanfold paper, and then documented it in pencil alongside. I later got a BBC Micro Model B when that came out.

I read the book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter at the age of 14 and fell inlove with Meta Systems.

At 18 I got a job at a the English branch of an American Company called FORMSCAN.

I also later learned C in two days from K&R when I was 18.

At 19 I got two jobs, I built a two 8 bit embedded micro systems (6803, and 6303) from scratch for commercial devices and programmed applications for them.

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In 2000 I studied the Linux kernel extensively for about a year before even trying Linux on a machine.  I later ran three lots of dual, RAID'ed servers for 7 years, with 36 hours downtime of which 1 hour was my fault !

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I am currently working on a project called G which is a suite of libarary and tool based code generators in C++ which form a true source to source compiler compiler, which is AST based, rather than just a Lexical Analyser and Parser Generator which Lex/flex and Yacc/Bison are.

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