26 Sep
2001
26 Sep
'01
5:19 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:23:45PM -0600, Richard Erlacher wrote:
I've got the machine readable FOCAL source file
available now. It's in 6502
Assembly Language, PAL65 syntax, which will make DEC-users comfortable and the
rest of us cringe, but that's what available. I've been unable to find the
FOCAL manual, which I incorporated into my last assembly of the code, hence
believe it's on a different diskette from which I last assembled the thing in
'81-'82 or so, as a printer exercise, actually.
I'm sure we would all enjoy hearing the history of this software (APEX,
PAL65, XPL0, FOCAL, etc.) and of the people and computers involved.
-- Derek