Small bootstrappable languages (Was: Re: PDF...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Dec 2008

At 22:26 -0600 12/10/08, bfranchuk wrote:
...
 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. 

At 12:00 -0600 12/11/08, Jim Battle summarized:
...
 Ben you have said these three things in this thread:

(1) "Any good leads as am still looking for a small boot strapable 
langauge here."

(2) "Tiny C will not work as my instruction set does NOT have 
register to register
operations."

(3) "I could do Forth but it would be slow as I have no 
auto-incriment registers and wound
need to use memory variables." 

Ben (?), I note that on:

http://www.altair680kit.com/index.html

or more specifically,

http://www.altair680kit.com/manuals/Altair_680-VTL-2%20Manual-05-Beta_1-Sea…

Grant Stockly refers to "VTL-2" from Gary Shannon and Frank McCoy. 
The manual says it requires 768 bytes to implement on a 6800 (which 
has, admittedly, a pretty flexible instruction set, including good 
stack operations).

Not knowing anything more about your system or the language than what 
I've posted above, I still suggest it might be worth a look.
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