On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Feb 8, 2016, at 12:31 PM, Ian S. King <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > There's FIG-Forth for the PDP11. That has a few EIS instructions in it > but that would be quite easy to change. > > paul > > > FIG-Forth runs on RT-11, right? I only have the original 4kW in my 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."
