1 Jun
2000
1 Jun
'00
10:17 a.m.
Here's something I pondered the other day:
Why is AppleSoft BASIC called "AppleSoft" BASIC?
^^^^
Does this have something to do with the fact that Microsoft designed it?
I can't think offhand of any other Apple software product that fell
under the designation of "AppleSoft".
Something tells me Eric may know this.
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1 Jun
1 Jun
12:54 p.m.
New subject: Looking for data sheet for Zilog 8530 Serial chip
A search of the web yielded lots of links, but no datasheet. I want to know
how to program it and its electrical characteristics. You know, the stuff
on a datasheet. Zilog's web site doesn't have it.
Can anybody help?
[ Its the chip used in the Apple Lisa and Mac and LOTS of other devices. ]
Thanks,
John
- jlewczyk(a)his.com
1:03 p.m.
New subject: Looking for data sheet for Zilog 8530 Serial chip
"John Lewczyk" <jlewczyk(a)his.com> asks about the 8530:
A search of the web yielded lots of links, but no
datasheet. I want to know
how to program it and its electrical characteristics. You know, the stuff
on a datasheet. Zilog's web site doesn't have it.
[ Its the chip used in the Apple Lisa and Mac and LOTS of other devices. ]
http://www.amd.com/products/npd/techdocs/techdocs.html
Near the bottom of the page is a technical manual covering the 8530H
and 85C30, and a data sheet and errata sheet on the 85C30. Note that
the 85C30 has some additional features that were not available in the
NMOS/HMOS part; these should be called out in the docs.
1:24 p.m.
New subject: Looking for data sheet for Zilog 8530 Serial chip
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 08:54:49PM -0400, John Lewczyk wrote:
A search of the web yielded lots of links, but no
datasheet. I want to know
how to program it and its electrical characteristics. You know, the stuff
on a datasheet. Zilog's web site doesn't have it.
Really? Last time I cared (a few months ago) I had no trouble finding it
on Zilog's web site. IIRC they had a single unified doc for all of their
SCC chips, and you had to download the chapters as individual PDFs. I've
got 'em (about 1.3 MB total), as well as the AMD Am85C30 and Am85C30A PDFs,
if you want them just tell me how to send them (email, FTP, etc.).
John Wilson
D Bit
1:19 p.m.
Maybe Microsoft wrote it but I thought that Shepherdson Microsystems had a hand in
Apple's Basic as well as writing ProDos.
I will poke around for that info. A few months ago I ran across a website which
gave a lot of the history of Shepherdson (later Optimized Systems Software).
Sellam Ismail wrote:
Here's something I pondered the other day:
Why is AppleSoft BASIC called "AppleSoft" BASIC?
^^^^
Does this have something to do with the fact that Microsoft designed it?
I can't think offhand of any other Apple software product that fell
under the designation of "AppleSoft".
Something tells me Eric may know this.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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2 Jun
2 Jun
8:07 a.m.
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Technoid Mutant wrote:
Maybe Microsoft wrote it but I thought that
Shepherdson Microsystems
had a hand in Apple's Basic as well as writing ProDos.
I will poke around for that info. A few months ago I ran across a
website which gave a lot of the history of Shepherdson (later
Optimized Systems Software).
Here it is:
http://www.laughton.com/Apple/Apple.html
It's a nice little historyon Apple DOS.
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