21 Jun
2016
21 Jun
'16
8:25 a.m.
On 6/21/16 8:14 AM, Ian S. King wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Josh Dersch
<derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:
ISTR that BravoX was written in Mesa. -- Ian
Yes it was, as was MazeWar and the Laurel mail client (and many other
things).
- Josh
Mesa
became the basis for much of the software on Xerox's later
D-machines (the Star
and its successors). It was compiled into a
byte-coded stack-based machine code (the bytecode interpreter was
implemented in microcode on the Alto and later machines) and apparently the
code density was pretty remarkable (from what I've read). The Viewpoint
GUI and applications were written in it. It was a strongly-typed
high-level language with exceptions. I don't (yet) have any direct
experience in using the language, but it's something I want to get around
to one of these days.
- Josh