6 Jun
2009
6 Jun
'09
7:27 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
UCSD P-system?
Now theres a name I haven't seen in a while.... 10 or so years ago I
worked for a company in Bristol (UK) who supposedly had the rights to
the P-System. Went by the name of Cabot Software, formerly Pecan Systems
IIRC. Great system but didn't keep up with the times. We had the
interpreter running on a selection of digital TV STBs with C as the
preferred source language (no, not a logical choice for the P-System!).
That led to them getting into the MHEG-5 market and eventually swallowed
up by a TV manufacturer. Anyway, the story goes that the P-System was
considered by IBM along with CP/M for the PC. Don't know how much thuth
there was to that but even in my time we had several customers still
running P-System natively on a variety of hardware - AppleII, a
contemporary mini (can't remember which) at Norwich Union and some 68K
based (Stride?) systems.
Happy days!
James
It would be
nice to see just about any OS that wasn't basically POSIX, or
DOS/Windows running native on a PC.
ROM BASIC? (Technically, it performs some of the functions of an OS)
Standalone Forth? (there must be at least one..)
UCSD P-system?
CP/M-86?
-tony