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Post #71,705 by jb4 12/31/02 9:29:55 AM 12/31/02 9:30:41 AM Reply	Well, I didn't really wnt to go there, but ... ...since you brought it up: Some assemblers are more readable than others (compare PDP-11 assembler to 80x86 assembler [before Micros~1 got their hands all over it and buggered the living snot out of it]). However, all assemblers I know of use the ASCII character set.... ;-) jb4 "They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink." Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990 Edited by jb4 Dec. 31, 2002, 09:30:41 AM EST Well, I didn't really wnt to go there, but ... ...since you brought it up: Some assemblers are more readable than others (compare PDP-11 assembler to 80x86 assembler [before Micros~1 got their hands all over it and buggered the living snot out of it]). However, all assemblers I know of use the ASCII character set.... jb4 "They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink." Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990 Collapse All History
Post #71,840 by a6l6e6x 1/1/03 10:50:02 AM Reply	Re: "use the ASCII character set" except for those on an IBM system that use EBCDIC. :) Alex "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
Post #72,050 by jb4 1/2/03 1:02:19 PM Reply	Yes...well, um...er,...coff... OK, sure. But there are those of us who don't consider EBCDICk to be a "character set". ;-\ufffd (and happy new year, too!) jb4 "They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink." Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990
Post #72,077 by deSitter 1/2/03 4:26:18 PM Reply	Sigh - when things were interesting... [image\|http://www.colorforth.com/byte.jpg\|\|\|815"\|607] August 1980 cover of BYTE, "The Small Systems Journal". Remember that? The illustration is of FORTH's interpreter mechanism, known as "threaded interpretation". -drl
Post #72,201 by jb4 1/3/03 9:39:17 AM Reply	Yes, I remember this cover! I was still in ABQ at the time working for EG&G. We had some interest in FORTH back then, for use in our weather monitoring stations we were developing for the Army Corps of Engineers for the Columbia River Monitoring system. Ross, where do you find these pictures to link to? jb4 "They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink." Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990

The Perfect Operating System - (deSitter) - (18) - Dec. 29, 2002, 05:55:51 PM EST

Forth based operating system, huh? - (Andrew Grygus) - (9) - Dec. 29, 2002, 06:57:32 PM EST

Well, sounds like a good match - (tonytib) - (6) - Dec. 29, 2002, 07:37:00 PM EST

Re: Well, sounds like a good match - (deSitter) - (5) - Dec. 29, 2002, 08:52:49 PM EST

I remember reading lots about FORTH. - (static) - (2) - Dec. 29, 2002, 08:57:06 PM EST

Re: I remember reading lots about FORTH. - (deSitter) - (1) - Dec. 29, 2002, 09:16:30 PM EST

FORTH & embedded systems - (Andrew Grygus) - Dec. 30, 2002, 01:35:43 AM EST

Thanks, it looks interesting - (tonytib) - (1) - Dec. 29, 2002, 11:26:49 PM EST

Re: Thanks, it looks interesting - (deSitter) - Dec. 30, 2002, 02:33:44 AM EST

Ahhh.. is *THAT* what QX-10 was about !? - (Ashton) - (1) - Dec. 29, 2002, 09:19:07 PM EST

FORTH took the rap. - (Andrew Grygus) - Dec. 30, 2002, 01:44:30 AM EST

Oh, GRREEEAATT! - (jb4) - (7) - Dec. 30, 2002, 06:06:35 PM EST

Re: Oh, GRREEEAATT! - (deSitter) - (6) - Dec. 30, 2002, 10:20:07 PM EST

Re: Oh, GRREEEAATT! - (hnick) - Dec. 31, 2002, 07:24:24 AM EST

Well, I didn't really wnt to go there, but ... - (jb4) - (4) - Dec. 31, 2002, 09:30:41 AM EST

Re: "use the ASCII character set" - (a6l6e6x) - (3) - Jan. 1, 2003, 10:50:02 AM EST

Yes...well, um...er,...*coff*... - (jb4) - (2) - Jan. 2, 2003, 01:02:19 PM EST

Sigh - when things were interesting... - (deSitter) - (1) - Jan. 2, 2003, 04:26:18 PM EST

Yes, I remember this cover! - (jb4) - Jan. 3, 2003, 09:39:17 AM EST

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