Re: [Freedos-devel] MAD compiler for DOS?

2024-01-30 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 1/30/2024 3:43 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: [..] Jim Hall wrote: [..] I'm thinking about writing a book about the early history of document preparation systems, and RUNOFF seemed a good place to start. I want to faithfully recreate the MAD code in another programming language - not

Re: [Freedos-devel] MAD compiler for DOS?

2024-01-30 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
Jim Hall wrote: > > I am working on an academic project that requires understanding the MAD > > programming language so I can pick apart (and faithfully recreate) an old > > MAD program. That's the Michigan Algorithm Decoder, from 1959 and the early > > 1960s. tom ehlert wrote: > it would make

Re: [Freedos-devel] MAD compiler for DOS?

2024-01-30 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
[..] Jim Hall wrote: [..] > > I'm thinking about writing a book about the early history of document > > preparation systems, and RUNOFF seemed a good place to start. I want > > to faithfully recreate the MAD code in another programming language - > > not an automated translation like ESR's

Re: [Freedos-devel] MAD compiler for DOS?

2024-01-30 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 1/30/2024 2:14 PM, Danilo Pecher wrote: I'm having real problems to read about MAD code written with FAP subroutines with a straight face. I'm such a child... Blame Alfred  ___ Freedos-devel mailing list

Re: [Freedos-devel] MAD compiler for DOS?

2024-01-30 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
> I am working on an academic project that requires understanding the MAD > programming language so I can pick apart (and faithfully recreate) an old > MAD program. That's the Michigan Algorithm Decoder, from 1959 and the early > 1960s. it would make this much more interesting if you would

Re: [Freedos-devel] MAD compiler for DOS?

2024-01-30 Thread Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel
I'm having real problems to read about MAD code written with FAP subroutines with a straight face. I'm such a child... On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 23:00, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote: > > On 1/30/2024 1:37 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Jim Hall wrote: > >>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at

Re: [Freedos-devel] MAD compiler for DOS?

2024-01-30 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 1/30/2024 1:37 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: Jim Hall wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 8:07 PM Jim Hall wrote: I am working on an academic project that requires understanding the MAD programming language so I can pick apart (and faithfully recreate) an old MAD program. That's the

Re: [Freedos-devel] MAD compiler for DOS?

2024-01-30 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
Jim Hall wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 8:07 PM Jim Hall wrote: > >> I am working on an academic project that requires understanding the > >> MAD programming language so I can pick apart (and faithfully recreate) > >> an old MAD program. That's the Michigan Algorithm Decoder, from 1959 > >>

Re: [Freedos-devel] MAD compiler for DOS?

2024-01-30 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 1/30/2024 7:58 AM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 8:07 PM Jim Hall wrote: I am working on an academic project that requires understanding the MAD programming language so I can pick apart (and faithfully recreate) an old MAD program. That's the Michigan Algorithm

Re: [Freedos-devel] MAD compiler for DOS?

2024-01-30 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 8:07 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > I am working on an academic project that requires understanding the > MAD programming language so I can pick apart (and faithfully recreate) > an old MAD program. That's the Michigan Algorithm Decoder, from 1959 > and the early 1960s. >[..] >