Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 1/Oct/10 13:20 | Oct1:
Two famous ex QL'ers who made a difference in the IT world met at LinuxCon
in Sao Paolo, Brazil recently. On a spare minute at an excursion to the Sao
Paolo zoo they had a chat about their experiences with the Sinclair QL. This
has been filmed by Jeremy and the video is on YouTube now. Watch it!
http://tinyurl.com/ql-videos
(third video under Favorites)
BTW: End of last year I set up a web page about Linus QL contribution GMOVE.
http://tinyurl.com/Linus-QL
Jeremy's QL best known QL contributions are ARC and PDQC which are still
available in many PD libraries.
I particularly like LT's throw away answer - "Did you use GST Macro
Assembler" "No I wrote my own".
He also liked to run programs from ROM "... as they ran faster than from
ram, which has contentions".
He was a *real* software geek. I would have loved to hear him and
Laurence Reeves (and Tony Tebby of course) chatting. Lau also wrote his
own (Microchip) assembler when developing superHermes. The Microchip
assembler was awful in many respects, not least forbidding '_' in labels
and not having a linker. It all came to a head though when we found
major problems, which just *had* to be the chip itself. "Can we see the
asm please" "We only have it in our own QL based assembler". Lau spent
a good month rewriting it under their assembler, and of course it
compiled identical code.
Tony
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