Programming

[Ian S. King]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> > On Feb 8, 2016, at 12:31 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Murray McCullough <
> > c.murray.mccullough at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> There is the software side to classic computing: Back in the early
> >> days we wrote/coded in BASIC-TinyBASIC running in 2K(talk about
> >> writing efficient code!); EASY and SmallFORTRAN. What apps/programs
> >> are written in today I don’t know. They certainly can’t run in 2 or 4
> >> K but is the outcome the same – make a computer or computer-like
> >> machine do what we want it to.
> >>
> >
> > How about FORTH?  I've always been fond of it, even if it is a write-only
> > language.  There's a version called SOL-11 that will run in 4kW on a
> > PDP-11, but it requires the EIS - so much for running that on my
> PDP-11/20.
>
> There's FIG-Forth for the PDP11.  That has a few EIS instructions in it
> but that would be quite easy to change.
>
>         paul
>
>
> FIG-Forth runs on RT-11, right?  I only have the original 4kW in my
11/20....

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Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens

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