11 Aug
2004
11 Aug
'04
1:25 a.m.
>>>> "ben" == ben franchuk
<bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> writes:
ben> Tony Duell wrote:
> Cheating a bit, but how about FIGforth? I believe
it is truely
> public domain, and as it runs on the bare metal, it could be
> claimed to include the OS. I assume there was/is a version of the
> 8088.
ben> Yes, but try and find it today. Fig forth is for the 8080 and
ben> 6502 with I/O supplied by the user and ASM source. While I
ben> suspect you can get a version for the 8088 I don't expect you
ben> can get the source for it. Read keyboard, test keyboard ready,
ben> print to screen, read disk block, write disk block I think is
ben> all that is needed.
I wonder if I still have the source on-line (I do have it on paper).
There's also ColorForth, which unfortunately doesn't seem to want to
boot on my modern PCs...
paul