12 Nov
1998
12 Nov
'98
12:42 a.m.
Ok, the customized 4K Altair BASIC lives as a 3 minute track on
an audio CD (still trying to make a backup of the original cassette
format to go with the short boot loader - that's trickier), and
working on getting an 8K Altair BASIC on fresh media (need that
to run a REAL Startrek).
Another project in the tapes is an 'OS' based on a Byte book called
'Threaded Interpretive Languages' - just curious what opionions
are out there about FORTH as an 8-bit os. It seemed like just
the right balance of control - not as terse as assembly, and
not as handcuff'd as BASIC.
What other 8-bit languages/os's were there? What ever happened to
APL? Is there a Tiny-C available somewhere?
Chuck
cswiger(a)widomaker.com