Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

2017-03-28 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Systems Glitch via cctalk wrote: Then it's a regional thing. "Scrounge up," or to "scrounge around," is certainly commonly used to mean, "find something in a pile of mess" in the southeastern US. Mostly equivalent to "scare up." California: "Scrounge the keyboards, memor

Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

2017-03-28 Thread Systems Glitch via cctalk
> Then it's a regional thing. "Scrounge up," or to "scrounge around," is certainly commonly used to mean, "find something in a pile of mess" in the southeastern US. Mostly equivalent to "scare up." Thanks, Jonathan

Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

2017-03-28 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
On 2017-03-28 11:23 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On 28 March 2017 at 08:54, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: I need to scrounge around Hmm. That is not a possible usage of "scrounge" the way I know it. You can't scrounge something you already have. It doesn't mean "search for", it means "t

Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

2017-03-28 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On 28 March 2017 at 08:54, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > I need to scrounge around Hmm. That is not a possible usage of "scrounge" the way I know it. You can't scrounge something you already have. It doesn't mean "search for", it means "to pilfer", to get something off someone by the pretence

Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

2017-03-27 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
That's cool. I need to scrounge around and find my copy of Forth we used on a 6809 tape controller firmware. I had forth in the diagnostic firmware that we had on a snapon module and you could compose whatever diagnostic exercises you chose by executing the basic test functions we had in Fo

Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

2017-03-27 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Sean Conner via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Some time ago I came across the MC6839 ROM which contains floating point > routines for the 6809. The documentation that came with it stated: > > Written for Motorola by Joel Boney, 1980 >