After Freescale bought Metrowerks (1996? '98?), there were versions of CodeWarrior made for many of Freescale's embedded chips, which were obviously very common.
Again, in spite of my current experience I don't doubt for a second that you had a lot of issues. Software was just a lot worse back then, and having now dipped my toes in the frameworks and languages used in the circa 2000 period, I'm not really surprised why. There's 0 references to automated testing in any of the programming books or documentation I've looked at, and as far as I can tell absolutely no support for it. Version control is extremely rudimentary. I didn't programme professionally until early last decade, and some of what I can infer to be have been normal is just baffling for me.
Again, in spite of my current experience I don't doubt for a second that you had a lot of issues. Software was just a lot worse back then, and having now dipped my toes in the frameworks and languages used in the circa 2000 period, I'm not really surprised why. There's 0 references to automated testing in any of the programming books or documentation I've looked at, and as far as I can tell absolutely no support for it. Version control is extremely rudimentary. I didn't programme professionally until early last decade, and some of what I can infer to be have been normal is just baffling for me.