Bootstrappable builds

Posted Jan 10, 2021 17:37 UTC (Sun) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Bootstrappable builds by jhhaller
Parent article: Bootstrappable builds

You are thinking of the VIPER. I recall reading a story about it in some magazine, possibly BYTE. Quick googling turned up the following 1987 paper from Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, with proper old military document vibe (marked UNCLASSIFIED, looks like an old photocopy)

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a194561.pdf