You were NOT supposed to confirm that I am as complete a masochist as
everyone had become to believe. Gee whillikers! Now they will know
what I have been doing instead of DSP code.
Karl awarded me the IPS medal. He told me that it is normally awarded
posthumously. Just in case you are as old as Tom, Alberto, Eric E, Mike
Cresap, etc. and I am in "computer age", dig out your Byte Magazine
copies:
"IPS, An Unorthodox High Level Language", K. Meinzer, BYTE pp. 146-159
(Jan 1979)
and a slightly anachronistic book is also available which is still
useful but needs updating.
http://www.jrmiller.demon.co.uk/products/ipsbk.html
You may even download copies if you are really interested in some pain:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/ao40/ips.html
As my pain level drops in the next few months, I will be bringing out
IPS for Linux probably with much help from Bdale Garbee (KB0G, yes of
Debian fame). No one should underestimate how difficult this was back
in the days of the 8080. It was so painful that Dunbar had a heart
attack, Clark almost completely gave up computer programming (if I put
him into the worst kind of corner, I can get him to write beautiful
matlab and excel code), and John, W1HDX has been absent for years. I
just thought I would warn that unlike me, you can be infected, err uhh,
impacted by doing this
doing this
doing this
doing
doing this doi
doing thhiiiiiissssssssssss
s
ssssss
Happy New Year (and that IS an order)
Bob
N4HY
Tom Clark, W3IWI wrote:
Eric offered the sidebar:
Guys don't forget my:
Processor Technology Sol - 20 . . .
We used to call them the *Proctology-20*. They went the way of the
*CommodeDoor C-64*. I had a couple of Imsai's myself. I remeber my
first 256 byte RAM card and writing a one-D PONG game for the front
panel status switches.
In mentioning classic languages, let's not forget DJ4ZC's IPS -- IPS
is a threaded interpreter that has worked on a number of processors.
Rad Hard Cosmac 1802's running IPS powered AO-10, AO-14 & AO-40. Karl
ported IPS to the Atari 400 & 600, which served many of the AO-10/13
ground stations. W0PN/W1HDX/W3IWI did an 8080 port for command
stations elsewhere who used S-100 based hardware. N4HY has just
finished a 32-bit IPS for the upcoming P4D, P5A and Eagle missions.
IPS is a really neat multi-tasking implementation of FORTH. -- 73, Tom
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