Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alexander Skobelev Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Go Forth And Prosper Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 09:50:07 +0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <7ecf883f-c724-442c-b1d4-d0756a54f267@googlegroups.com> <7xy4xpb148.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <7xwqd9cehn.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <3151858b-9164-46d7-b15d-e9a5b95614ab@googlegroups.com> <7xegzgl7d2.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <3ef8188c-f7c4-4181-a029-1b36811870d5@googlegroups.com> <7xppj0jp4m.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <7xha4cjo7c.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <7e42cfc9-f30d-4447-9dae-983270b09626@googlegroups.com> <75dff0d6-9aba-4b3f-afb5-a9a129ec434f@googlegroups.com> <36de117c-3ea5-4380-bce8-05bb2e6f38e3@googlegroups.com> <8a7b8404-b32f-4119-b39a-6f9498da2823@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7a87da86952ef5b3fc9c863be0436818"; logging-data="4537"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1827IzQzDYzlCXKpo3Us5oN" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:U9h73OH8WAio9u8xKHM4Fntm/B8= sha1:nliYiWk0Y5QKCMaQRGYMWy8Ndn0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:30940 visualforth@rocketmail.com writes: > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8:54:52 PM UTC-4, David J wrote: >> > Now the time is there, that neither CRT terminal nor PC is needed, >> > because microprocessors are that fast that they can directly deal >> > with a LCD, and for storage only a SD card is needed. >> > So I totally understand that you like to work inside the system. >> > I would like to do the same. >> > So, at the end I have a question: >> > Are you offering or publishing your system so others can do the same? >> >> Well, the good news is that most of it is already published. Most of >> the modules were written by others and posted to the Parallax >> repository under an MIT license. All I'm doing is putting them >> together and adding a simple editor. Nevertheless, at some point >> I'll be happy to share the details and my portion of the body of code >> to anyone who is interested. >> >> BTW, that was a very interesting history! I have at least a passing >> familiarity with most of the hardware you mentioned. Even though I >> was a 6502 fan, I associated with a guy in Bend, Oregon, a former >> Tektronix employee, who sold a Z-80 based SBC and published a >> magazine about it called Micro Corucopia. Did you ever hear of that? >> A bunch of folks on the Parallax forum use the Propeller to emulate >> old processors. You can put together a complete CP/M machine with a >> Propeller. The chip emulates the CPU as well as the disk controller >> and display driver. Fun times! > > David, since you are the expert, so to speak, please let me know if > there is a book or a tutorial available about this Parallax system you > are using. > > For me starting a Parallax project would be a daunting task, but with > a "how to do" leaflet I may be able to try. "The chip emulates the CPU > as well as the disk controller and display driver" sounds impressive! It looks like Parallax has a book about it: http://www.parallax.com/product/32316