Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Rico Pajarola via cctalk
cool, but... these are "translated" sources (presumably from some generic source that is run through a tool that generates x86 asm). I just wish they had also released the "source of the source" and the translation tool. Because that was the interesting part of it. On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:43

Re: Nova BASIC paper tape image

2020-05-22 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 5/21/2020 9:43 PM, Bruce Ray via cctech wrote: G'day Camiel - I will contact you off list - Bruce Ray Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc. Boulder, Colorado USA b...@wildharecomputers.com ...preserving the Data General legacy: www.NovasAreForever.org Bruce, If you have a way to run the sta

Re: (V)HDL Toolsets

2020-05-22 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2020-05-21 22:44, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote: > I must have miscommunicated.  I have Xilinx ISE WebPack installed and > running.  I was asking about getting the Lattice toolchain up and > running, which programming cable to get, Are you talking Lattice/Diamond on Win10 or linux? I don't remem

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 5/22/20 2:56 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: Now that is really cool. Good old MS In '83 I was working for DEC and had access to things like BASIC+. I was amazed at what they could do on a micoprocessor. In my early days :-) I was given a project to develop programs for an LSI-11/02

Re: Keyboard inverters/converters for terminals

2020-05-22 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 05:26, Rico Pajarola via cctalk wrote: > > > The whole concept of "if the plug fits, it will at least not blow up" is > kind of a late invention. Ha! I have an old external 3.5" IDE disk enclosure. It's a good enclosure, too -- Firewire 800 _and_ USB 2 _and_ eSATA. It has

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Nigel Johnson via cctalk
I know where you are coming from. Starting out as an FE I was only initially trained in assembler - specifically to trace each instruction through the machine for troubleshooting!  My first database was written in ART418 (Assembler for Real Time/ Univac 418 :-))Later I learned C and used it to

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:42:54PM -0700, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > Seems of interest.  Will be interesting to play with. > > https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/ > Around 1992 I tried to use Basic on my Amiga to compute some stuff from the physic

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Jim Brain via cctalk
On 5/22/2020 3:34 AM, Rico Pajarola via cctalk wrote: cool, but... these are "translated" sources (presumably from some generic source that is run through a tool that generates x86 asm). I just wish they had also released the "source of the source" and the translation tool. Because that was the

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Richard Cini via cctalk
I really appreciate that MS is doing this. For me, I like seeing the progressing of the code over time...like comparing QDOS to MSDOS 1.0 to 1.1 to 2.0. The release of WinWord 1.1 was interesting but not as much to me as DOS or even the early BASICS for the 6502/Z80 which I think used the same k

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Evan Koblentz via cctalk
Interesting. I wonder if this is similar to the qbasic code in the dos 5 (6?) source leak that's floating around. Or if Gates wrote any of it. Gates told the Smithsonian that the last product for which he personally coded was the TRS-80 Model 100.

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
A quick look at the code indicates to me that the Intel translator CONV86 may well have done the translation in "strict" mode. Of course, there were other translators, but some of the stuff rings a bell. For example, the 8080 instruction INX B gets translated to SAHF

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, May 22, 2020, 1:43 AM jim stephens via cctalk wrote: Seems of interest. Will be interesting to play with. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/ On Fri, 22 May 2020, Justin Goldberg via cctalk wrote: Interesting. I wonder if this is similar to t

Re: Keyboard inverters/converters for terminals

2020-05-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: Ha! I have an old external 3.5" IDE disk enclosure. It's a good enclosure, too -- Firewire 800 _and_ USB 2 _and_ eSATA. It has the internal drive from my old iMac G5 in it. The iMac suffered from failing capacitors and I coaxed a little more life

Re: Keyboard inverters/converters for terminals

2020-05-22 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
> But, I have some 3.25" drives that use same connectors as "standard" 3.5" > drives, ("4 pin Berg"?) EXCEPT 5V and 12V are swapped in their positions > in the coneectors! I have an Archive Sidewinder tape drive on one of my PERQs. The power connector is the same as a 5.25" floppy drive power con

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: Now even embedded systems are running with gigahertz clock speeds!  Over my career I have seen the change from three assembler courses in a six-semester program to just one 'so they can get their hands wet'! In the end, when asked 'why do we

Re: Keyboard inverters/converters for terminals

2020-05-22 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 18:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > Similarly, I have a few 3.25" drives. NO, not 3.5"; not 3.0". 3.25" was > the entry in the "shirt pocket disk" wars that Dysan bet the company on. > (remember their disks?)Another discussion. I remember the Zenith Minisport, a D

Re: Keyboard inverters/converters for terminals

2020-05-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Tony Duell wrote: Of course plugging an RS232 cable (DB25, none of this DE9 nonsense!) into a PC printer port (or a PC printer cable into an RS232 port) is a good way to let magic smoke out of some TTL chips... IBM tried to use the [INADEQUATE] protection of opposite gender

Re: Keyboard inverters/converters for terminals

2020-05-22 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 6:21 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 2020, Tony Duell wrote: > > Of course plugging an RS232 cable (DB25, none of this DE9 nonsense!) > > into a PC printer port (or a PC printer cable into an RS232 port) is a > > good way to let magic smoke out of some TT

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk
Thanks for posting the timeline of various Basic interpreters. I wasn't aware that Gates/Allen also wrote Basic for C64. Did download the 8080 Basic source code out of interest, but in early 1980's had very little to do with IBM PC. As was working with PDP-11's at that time, really disliked

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 5/22/20 10:31 AM, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk wrote: Recently found a movie Pirates of Silicon Valley which had some of early Microsoft history It is a work of fiction, and should be taken as such.

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread ben via cctalk
On 5/22/2020 6:06 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/20 2:56 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: Now that is really cool. Good old MS In '83 I was working for DEC and had access to things like BASIC+. I was amazed at what they could do on a micoprocessor. In my early days :-)  I

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread ben via cctalk
On 5/22/2020 11:50 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/20 10:31 AM, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk wrote: Recently found a movie Pirates of Silicon Valley which had some of early Microsoft history It is a work of fiction, and should be taken as such. Confused here. Pirates or Micosoft hi

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
I remember sittig in the DEC Ealing (London) Office in 1975 watching a programmer work on TOPS 10 That was DEC's mainframe operating system. A foot high of printout all in assembler!!! On 22/05/2020 20:24, ben via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/2020 6:06 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Recently found a movie Pirates of Silicon Valley which had some of early Microsoft history On 5/22/2020 11:50 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: It is a work of fiction, and should be taken as such. On Fri, 22 May 2020, ben via cctalk wrote: Confused here. Pirates or Micosoft history? Runs. Ben

Re: Keyboard inverters/converters for terminals

2020-05-22 Thread Pete Turnbull via cctalk
On 22/05/2020 17:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: #> 3.0" drives (Amdek, Amstrad, etc.) use same connectors as "standard" 5.25", with "molex" power connector (I don't know what the CORRECT name is for that connector). It's part of the AMP (now TE) Mate-N-LOK series. But, I have some 3.25" dr

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread ben via cctalk
On 5/22/2020 1:38 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: I remember sittig in the DEC Ealing (London) Office in 1975 watching a programmer work on TOPS 10 That was DEC's mainframe operating system. A foot high of printout all in assembler!!! But remember mainframes after 1960 (compared to the 50

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote: Thanks for posting the timeline of various Basic interpreters. I wasn't aware that Gates/Allen also wrote Basic for C64. Microsoft did a BASIC for the Commodore PET. I wasn't aware that they did the C64. Did download the 8080 Basic source code

Re: Keyboard inverters/converters for terminals

2020-05-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
3.0" drives (Amdek, Amstrad, etc.) use same connectors as "standard" 5.25", with "molex" power connector (I don't know what the CORRECT name is for that connector). On Fri, 22 May 2020, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote: It's part of the AMP (now TE) Mate-N-LOK series. But, I have some 3.25"

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2020, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote: Thanks for posting the timeline of various Basic interpreters. I wasn't aware that Gates/Allen also wrote Basic for C64. Microsoft did a BASIC for the Commodore PET. I wasn't aware that they did

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 5/22/2020 12:38 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: I remember sittig in the DEC Ealing (London) Office in 1975 watching a programmer work on TOPS 10 That was DEC's mainframe operating system. A foot high of printout all in assembler!!! HASP on the hoof, or MVT when I was around the 360

Re: (V)HDL Toolsets

2020-05-22 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On May 21, 2020, at 8:46 AM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: > > Helpful tips - I agree with avoiding vendor extensions. Thanks. I’d strongly suggest that the situation with FPGAs & HDLs requires a bit more nuance than that. You *should* probably avoid or carefully isolate vendor *language exte

Re: Looking for old Suns

2020-05-22 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
tis 2020-05-05 klockan 15:39 +0200 skrev Johan Helsingius via cctalk: > I have a bunch of the pizza box SPARC ones that need to find a proper > home, but they are somewhat special as they were the ones from one of > the first pan-European Internet service providers (EUnet). > > Julf > Are

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 5/22/20 3:24 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/2020 6:06 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/20 2:56 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: Now that is really cool. Good old MS In '83 I was working for DEC and had access to things like BASIC+. I was amazed at what they could do on a

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 5/22/20 3:34 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/2020 11:50 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/20 10:31 AM, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk wrote: Recently found a movie Pirates of Silicon Valley which had some of early Microsoft history It is a work of fiction, and should be taken as su

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Richard Cini via cctalk
You know, reading about this made me dig out the info I had on the Character Oriented Windows ("COW") library. I was reading some of the docs and it occurred to me that it operated much like Windows (probably Windows 1), but what I couldn't find were any "sample" programs or tools to build a pro

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Richard said > You know, reading about this made me dig out the info I had on the Character > Oriented Windows ("COW") library. I was reading some of the docs and it > occurred to me that it operated much like Windows (probably Windows 1), but > what I couldn't find were any "sample" programs or