19 Aug
2001
19 Aug
'01
5:22 a.m.
On Aug 18, 22:29, Derek Peschel wrote:
Acorn designed a 6502-based computer for the BBC,
called (natch) the BBC
Microcomputer. Sophie Wilson wrote a fine BASIC for the machine. When
Acorn designed the ARM chip and a line of computers based on that, the
BASIC
got ported, but I don't know who did that work.
Sophie did. She wrote TWIN (Two WINdow Editor), ChangeFSI (image
manipulation program), and some ray-traced demos as well, and several other
things.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York