[Coco] Looking for I/O specs for DECB,Nitros,.....

Brett K Heath hcmth019 at csun.edu
Tue May 2 04:40:00 EDT 2006



On Tue, 2 May 2006, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 23:33 -0700, Brett K Heath wrote:

> > If I ever get this thing past the proof of concept phase I'm certainly
> > going to need help making it usable. Actually, most of the assembler code
> > is already written (see my reply to John Hogerhuis), how much do you know
> > about old (pre-ANSI) forths?

> Must have gotten stuck somewhere, all I see is the response to Alan.

Patience, I haven't sent it yet.

> > Was that you who was involved with the reissue of _Starting Forth_ by Leo
> > Brodie?


> If you meant Thinking Forth, that was me. There can be no (legal) repub
> of Starting Forth unless ER permits it (Forth Inc. owns at least some of
> the rights).

I wasn't aware of that. It's very good that TF is back out there but SF is
incomparable as an introduction to the language.

And now back to my previous reply that I haven't sent yet.


Brett K. Heath



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