On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 22:38:50 +0100 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I used to be a zealot, but I never had the opportunity to settle into one > > single system ... the only time I've only had a single OS was with my ZX81 > > ... I really should get that working again sometime ... > > I still have a spectrum 48 > > although I mainly used forth instead of the builtin basic crap. > > same with the amstrad 6128. > > I often think the amstrad was a very "open" system. The api's for the > firmware were published in a little book, making it easy to hack up assembler > programs. >
Same for the Spectrum. Back in the old days I had a book with the full BIOS/firmware dissasembled and well commented. Probbably the only system I could say I understood well from top to the very bottom :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
