8 Feb
2016
8 Feb
'16
9:35 a.m.
On Feb 8, 2016, at 12:31 PM, Ian S. King <isking at
uw.edu> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Murray McCullough <
c.murray.mccullough at gmail.com> wrote:
There's FIG-Forth for the PDP11. That has a few EIS instructions in it but that would
be quite easy to change.
paul
There is the software side to classic computing:
Back in the early
days we wrote/coded in BASIC-TinyBASIC running in 2K(talk about
writing efficient code!); EASY and SmallFORTRAN. What apps/programs
are written in today I don?t know. They certainly can?t run in 2 or 4
K but is the outcome the same ? make a computer or computer-like
machine do what we want it to.
How about FORTH? I've always been fond of it, even if it is a write-only
language. There's a version called SOL-11 that will run in 4kW on a
PDP-11, but it requires the EIS - so much for running that on my PDP-11/20.