14 Jan
2012
14 Jan
'12
10:31 a.m.
On 14/01/2012 08:23, emanuel stiebler wrote:
On 2012-01-13 09:58, John Many Jars wrote:
That menu brings back some memories! I worked for Pecan/Cabot back in
the day who continued selling P-system based products well in to the
90's. Very popular with the Open University but ultimately lost out to
Borland TP (I recall at the time writing a bunch of libraries to emulate
those shipped with TP whcih looking back was a sure sign things were
wrong). The VM gained another 16 bits and was ported to lots of
different chips, including the ST20 (Transputer derived CPU). The 'C'
compiler was a total fudge though.
James
I tried to write a BBS in that for an Apple //.
Key word -tried-. Horrible. How did I ever live in anything that
small?
Weird, I liked it even on the Apple II. We had it running on a
mc68000, and that was zippy! I thought back then, that the
architecture was nice. As soon as you got it working at all, it was
very easy and fast to make changes to the system. We had lots of
different graphic display back then, and the adaption was very easy.
Cheers