[Coco] obscure programming languages was Re: books

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sat Dec 1 05:22:28 EST 2007


>From: Dean Leiber <adit at 1stconnect.com>
>Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:06:02 -0800

>The Docs for DL Johnson forth are up on maltedmedia. I think I gave  
>Boisy a copy of the Forth DSK image and it may be in the NitrOS9  
>stuff somewhere.

oooh, I'll have to poke around and look for it.  Yet another version
of forth I never use! ;-)

>I would love to get my hands on at least the Fortran package.  

I don't remember where I saw ads for it.  IIRC it ran about $500 a
copy, so Tandy never bothered with it.

>Remember that COBOL was big as a programming language for business at  
>one point (is it still?) so it does make sense esp. if porting an  
>application to OS-9.
>
I'll say one thing for the early Motorola 6809 and Microware OS-9
people.  They thought big!

Willard
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Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
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