30 Apr
2004
30 Apr
'04
11:53 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:48:25 -0400 (EDT)
spc(a)conman.org (Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner) wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Tony Duell once
stated:
I'm getting more and more excited, following this 6809 thread, because
somebody at work is planning on giving me his old Tandy Color Computer. I haven't
seen it yet, but he says it's a very complete system with two diskette drives, lots of
cartridges and software on diskettes. He was a Radio Shack employee while he was
accumulating it. I'll probably have tons and tons of diskette software once I've
taken delivery on it.
[1] Yes, this does include BBC Basic. IMHO BASIC-09 was better than even
that language. It supported user-defined types for one thing, and the
ability to call subroutines written in other languages.
The OS-9 executable format included the type of code (native code, byte
codes, etc) and with that, the system could either load and execute the
binary or load the interpreter, then the binary and execute it (or rather,
the interpreter execute it). A very modular system---think of DLLs that
could be executed. I rather like the OS.
-spc (Never really ran it, but do have the technical documents)