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11 Dec 2008

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Subject: Re: PDF (Was: something irrelevant given the thread's migration)
   From: "bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca" <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
   Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:31:11 -0700
     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>

Jim Brain wrote:

 Can't go with the "TXT FOREVAR" folks, though. SIX BIT ASCII IS STILL
FINE --- LOOK AT ALL THE
RARE L@@K ADS ON EBAY!
  And to your other point, to be consistent, I must
concur.  It's a 
 hobby, and anything goes.  I was only asking that a disclaimer be 
 applied, since the difference between "I code this up on my own 
 because it's a hobby and I think it's fun" and "I don't trust 
 pre-written apps and you should not either.  Write them yourself all 
 times" is sometimes hard to distinguish.

 Jim
 Any good leads as am still looking for a small boot strapable langauge 
here.  Tiny C will not work
as my instruction set does NOT have register to register operations. I 
plan to have a wopping
48Kb system as that was BIG memory 1975 ish. 

I'd suggest Tiny Basic as a starting point.  If you need less than that
how about a machine level monitor like ODT?  Generally that's where I've
started for any machine, some form of keyboard monitor.  It's also a 
starting point for IO that can be used by more sophisticated software
or a language.

Allison

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