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From TheJ <thej@shaw.ca>
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Subject Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers
Date Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:28:39 +0000 (UTC)
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My whole "thought experiment" was based on the possibility that it was at
least partly written in a high level language. 
Porting from assembly would be a small nightmare I'm sure.

j

Stavros Karatsoridis wrote:
> On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 1:24:10 AM UTC-4, TheJ wrote:
>> What caught my attention is that in the video displaying GS.OS 6.0.2
>> being
>> built, it is being done in MPW32.
>> As far as I can tell, MPW never supported 65816 assembly. It supported
>> 68K
>> and PowerPC assembly, as well as C, C++ and Pascal. So if it the code
>> isn't
>> 65816 ASM, then it is quite possibly Pascal or C. There ARE files in the
>> video that have "C" and "PASCAL" references in the names.
> 
> There most certainly was a 65816 assembler for MPW. There was a whole
> toolset available for MPW that allowed for cross-platform development of
> IIgs software on the Macintosh.
> 
> MPW had MPW IIgs Pascal, MPW IIgs assembler, and I think there was even a
> C
> compiler for it as well.
>

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Porting GSOS to Single board computers TheJ <thej@shaw.ca> - 2015-08-05 20:27 +0000
  Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2015-08-06 06:01 +0200
    Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-08-05 23:46 -0500
      Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers TheJ <thej@shaw.ca> - 2015-08-06 05:22 +0000
        Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Stavros Karatsoridis <skaratso@gmail.com> - 2015-08-06 06:31 -0700
          Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers TheJ <thej@shaw.ca> - 2015-08-06 17:28 +0000
            Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Stavros Karatsoridis <skaratso@gmail.com> - 2015-08-06 13:19 -0700
            Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers wssimms@gmail.com - 2015-08-06 17:55 -0700
  Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-08-06 11:30 +0000
  Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Benoit0123 <bgilon@free.fr> - 2015-08-10 14:56 +0000
    Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers sicklittlemonkey <nick.westgate@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 05:18 -0700
      Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-12 16:00 -0400
      Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-13 00:22 -0400
        Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers wssimms@gmail.com - 2015-08-12 17:49 -0700
          Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers misterlott@gmail.com - 2015-10-26 14:47 -0700
            Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-10-26 15:27 -0700
          Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers John Brooks <jbrooks@blueshiftinc.com> - 2015-10-26 16:24 -0700
            Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-10-27 14:29 +0000
              Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-10-27 17:08 -0500
                Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-10-28 00:51 +0000
                Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-10-28 15:06 -0500
              Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers misterlott@gmail.com - 2015-10-30 12:40 -0700
            Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2015-10-28 17:43 +0000
              Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-28 14:59 -0400
                Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2015-10-29 16:16 +0000
                Re: Porting GSOS to Single board computers Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-11-01 10:55 +0000

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