Chuck Guzis wrote:
> That is a bit of a surprise--in my experience it takes very little
> code to support Forth on any processor--that someone would build a
> dedicated chip for it is unusual.
There are actually quite a few Forth processors. Charles Moore himself
designed half a dozen or so. The
VCF East is done, VCF Southeast is next (April 29-30), VCF West is
August 5-6, and this summer we're announcing a NEW edition of the show
in an awesome place. :)
Southeast will feature former Apple Macintosh exec Andy Hertzfeld and
former Tandy exec Don French. I will be there too, but don't l
VCF East XII was held March 31-April 2. Around 500 people were there.
Adam Michlin's pictures: http://ceos.io/vcf/east/
Dave Riley's pictures:
http://oscar.the-rileys.net/VCF%20East%20XII%20Photos/
Dan Roganti's pictures: http://www.rogtronics.net/blog/?page_id=730
Mike Loewen's pictures: http
Made some progress with the AS400. Looks like one of the hard drives has
failed, it stated that if another disk fails then there could be a loss of
data.
Plan was to back up the system to a couple of 8GB QIC tapes, however
looking at my tapes they turned out to be only QIC525 MB tapes, and are not
It was thus said that the Great Sean Conner via cctalk once stated:
> It was thus said that the Great Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk once stated:
>
> > You can declare
> > new variables inside { ... } and they will shadow variables with the
> > same name declared outside of these brackets but this
It was thus said that the Great Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk once stated:
> Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote on Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:21:08 -0700
> > Thanks for the list--I was aware of the various Java engines and the WD
> > P-code engine, but had never run into the SCAMP.
>
> I just found an a
It was thus said that the Great Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk once stated:
> Sean Conner via cctalk wrote on Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:39:57 -0400
> > What about C made it difficult for the 432 to run?
> >
> > -spc (Curious here, as some aspects of the 432 made their way to the 286
> > and we
On 4/10/2017 5:45 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I suspect that at some point, Intel had
its big-system hopes pinned on the iA432 chipset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432
A friend made his career at Biin, mostly coding mind numbing code from
specs, and a round of golf every m
On 04/10/2017 04:47 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk wrote:
> The 64KB segments in the 8086 were not a problem for Pascal (or
> Smalltalk, as shown by the Xerox PARC Notetaker computer) because each
> heap object and each proceedure can live in a different segment to take
> advantage of the whol
I'd also like to have the board. I have a board with a NC4000 but never managed
to get a RTX-2000.
One might say the NC4000 was the prototype for the RTX-2000.
The RTX-2000 could run applications several times faster than the same
applications on a X86 machine of the time. They were often used
> > Thanks for the list--I was aware of the various Java engines and the WD
> > P-code engine, but had never run into the SCAMP.
>
> I just found an academic Pascal microprocessor from 1980 called EM-1 and
> described all the way to the chip layout level:
>
> http://authors.library.caltech.edu/27
Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote on Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:21:08 -0700
> Thanks for the list--I was aware of the various Java engines and the WD
> P-code engine, but had never run into the SCAMP.
I just found an academic Pascal microprocessor from 1980 called EM-1 and
described all the way to the c
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk
wrote:
> About the original question, since the Burroughs architecture was
> eventually implemented as a microprocessor you can say that this was
> designed to run Algol:
>
> http://www.cpushack.com/2015/04/18/the-forgotten-ones-unisy
On 04/10/2017 02:49 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk wrote:
Thanks for the list--I was aware of the various Java engines and the WD
P-code engine, but had never run into the SCAMP.
> Some architectures that are considered general purpose have included
> features to support specific languages.
Sean Conner via cctalk wrote on Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:39:57 -0400
> What about C made it difficult for the 432 to run?
>
> -spc (Curious here, as some aspects of the 432 made their way to the 286
> and we all know what happened to that architecture ... )
C expects memory addresses to lo
Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote on Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:59:40 +
> On 4/10/2017 4:42 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > Were there any microprocessor chips that attempted to mimic the
> > Burroughs B5000 series and natively execute Algol of any flavor?
>
> No, but Western Digital implemented
It was thus said that the Great Eric Smith via cctalk once stated:
>
> The Intel iAPX 432 was also designed to explicitly support block-structured
> languages. The main language Intel pushed was Ada, but there was no
> technical reason it couldn't have supported Algol, Pascal, Modula, Euclid,
> Me
On Apr 10, 2017 2:43 PM, "Chuck Guzis via cctalk"
wrote:
> Were there any microprocessor chips that attempted to mimic the
> Burroughs B5000 series and natively execute Algol of any flavor?
Yes, that's what the HP 3000 did (before PA RISC), and they did make
microprocessor implementations of it.
On 4/10/2017 4:42 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 04/10/2017 11:41 AM, Dave via cctalk wrote:
>> I have a Harris RTX-2000 based system control board for a long
>> defunct system. The board worked when removed more than 20 years ago
>> in the mid 90's. The RTX-2000 is a stack-based proces
On 04/10/2017 11:41 AM, Dave via cctalk wrote:
> I have a Harris RTX-2000 based system control board for a long
> defunct system. The board worked when removed more than 20 years ago
> in the mid 90's. The RTX-2000 is a stack-based processor designed
> for running FORTH. I think it was designed
>
> VCF East XII was held March 31-April 2. Around 500 people were there.
>
> Adam Michlin's pictures: http://ceos.io/vcf/east/
>
> Dave Riley's pictures:
> http://oscar.the-rileys.net/VCF%20East%20XII%20Photos/
>
> Dan Roganti's pictures: http://www.rogtronics.net/blog/?page_id=730
>
> Mike Loewen
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Dave via cctalk
wrote:
> I have a Harris RTX-2000 based system control board for a long defunct
> system. The board worked when removed more than 20 years ago in the mid
> 90's. The RTX-2000 is a stack-based processor designed for running FORTH.
> I think it wa
I have a Harris RTX-2000 based system control board for a long defunct system.
The board worked when removed more than 20 years ago in the mid 90's. The
RTX-2000 is a stack-based processor designed for running FORTH. I think it was
designed by Phil Koopman based on his graduate work. The boa
Thanks so much to everyone sharing these. Ive not renewed my passport in a
while and can't get to any of these events in the US so I really appreciate
these. Maybe someday we can get a 360/VR type tour thing going.
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From: Ev
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Christian Corti via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have another frontpanel, this one is from Plessey Peripheral Systems and
> must come from a 16 bit system. It's only the board with LEDs and switches.
> Does anyone know the system this panel c
Hi,
I have another frontpanel, this one is from Plessey Peripheral Systems and
must come from a 16 bit system. It's only the board with LEDs and
switches. Does anyone know the system this panel comes from?
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pics/temp/plessey_fp.jpg
Christian
VCF East XII was held March 31-April 2. Around 500 people were there.
Adam Michlin's pictures: http://ceos.io/vcf/east/
Dave Riley's pictures:
http://oscar.the-rileys.net/VCF%20East%20XII%20Photos/
Dan Roganti's pictures: http://www.rogtronics.net/blog/?page_id=730
Mike Loewen's pictures: ht
Sorry for the confusion. The bracket can take up to 4 cables, and the part
# is H3111. It candles both MJ, MJJ (offset), coax ,etc. Close to what you
can be at a store, but is says "DIGITAL" on it.
The cable is plain old MJ
I'm trying to post pictures, but need to dump them somewhere.
On Sun,
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