[Coco] obscure programming languages was Re: books

[John Donaldson]

Back in the 80's when I was still working at JSC in Houston, we had a 
SWPC 6809 OS9 system that had the Fortran Compiler on it. Only one I 
ever saw. Never seen one on a COCO3.

John Donaldson

Willard Goosey wrote:

>>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:30:28 -0500
>>From: "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at gmail.com>
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>>I believe that C implementation under RSDOS was from Dugger's Systems and it
>>was called "Small C"...
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>Humm.  Small C is the name of an old portable C subset that was ported
>to several different machines.
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>>Color Pilot is a 'Pilot' implementation under RSDOS, haven't seen one for
>>OS9 (at least on the CoCo)
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>RTSI.  On the other hand, I didn't know there was a rsdos version
>around.
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>Pilot is an interesting little language, but it seems kinda limited.
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>>DL Logo is an excellent Logo environment for OS9, flies circles around the
>>Tandy version done for RSDOS.
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>I somehow missed Logo completely, and I don't know a thing about it.
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>>Forth I believe was available from Microware once (80's) but the company
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>Never heard of a Microware Forth.  That would have been interesting.
>There's a forth for OS-9 on rtsi, and D.L. Johnson (I think) had a
>comercial forth interpter & compiler package for OS-9.
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>As long as you're being obscure, the iapl port on rtsi is a very well
>done APL.  The CoCo 3's fast text-on-graphics capability makes it a
>good fit for APL's unique character set.  
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>>There were a few implementations of Forth done for RSDOS, at least
>>one I have was freely available on Compuserve.
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>Yeah, there's one in the old Princeton archive on maltedmedia.
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>The mythical Microware packages I'm curious about were their FORTRAN
>and COBOL compilers (why cobol on a real-time OS?  Fortran I can
>see...) 
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>>FLEX had other compilers available, I know this OS at least had the Small C
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>>from Dugger's mentioned above.
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>I'm very curious about FLEX but there apparently aren't any CoCo 3
>friendly versions around.
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>Willard
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