[Coco] The early days of Hacking and Coding a CoCo Was: Here's a CoCo 1 ...

[Allen Huffman]

On Jan 18, 2014, at 9:20 PM, Steve <6809er at srbsoftware.com> wrote:

> The terminal keyboard would only send the key pressed to the CoCo and would be the same as the CoCo own keyboard.
> 
> The magic of EDTASM is how it does the output.  Microsoft EDTASM was design to interface with a Terminal.  So they would not have to change this part of the I/O and Edit systems, they wrote a CoCo screen output driver that took standard Terminal commands.


Ah!  So that would be output screen control and such -- positioning the cursor and the like on the terminal, like it would on the VDG screen.

That must have been much nicer to code with. I know many of us would discuss what the professionals were using to write CoCo programs. I guess the CoCo was self-hosted, though other systems (even in the 90s, like Palm Pilots and such) seem to always have been cross compiled.
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