17 Jul
2012
17 Jul
'12
3:35 a.m.
At 08:04 PM 7/16/2012, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
An "Squirrel!" moment, apparently.
The current code just about fits in the available memory, with lots of
hacks and kludges to make it all fit, including interesting places
where widths other than 80 columns would require recoding as the target
for this software was the VT52.
To give you an idea just how tightly wound this code is, there's this
plea in the release notes:
"News of bummed locations (even 1) should be sent to the TECO
SIG. Every little bit helps. For example, backward searches could be
implemented if we could only bum about 20 locations."
As I said, it's not practical to update this for variable-size screens.
It's close to a miracle that TECO-8 is as feature-rich as it is on a
machine with 16K.
-Rick
Rick Murphy
wrote:
Making OS/8 TECO support bigger screens wouldn't be either practical
or useful as the current
"current" what?