On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Murray McCullough < [email protected]> wrote:
> There is the software side to classic computing: Back in the early > days we wrote/coded in BASIC-TinyBASIC running in 2K(talk about > writing efficient code!); EASY and SmallFORTRAN. What apps/programs > are written in today I don’t know. They certainly can’t run in 2 or 4 > K but is the outcome the same – make a computer or computer-like > machine do what we want it to. > How about FORTH? I've always been fond of it, even if it is a write-only language. There's a version called SOL-11 that will run in 4kW on a PDP-11, but it requires the EIS - so much for running that on my PDP-11/20. -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
