On 2016-06-21 3:42 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
Even if you never touch an Alto (and I hope that you someday can do so!),
it's interesting to look at BCPL, an ancestor of C. I learned to read it
fairly well when I was maintaining LCM's first Alto. -- Ian
BCPL was also the language of the very firs
Even if you never touch an Alto (and I hope that you someday can do so!),
it's interesting to look at BCPL, an ancestor of C. I learned to read it
fairly well when I was maintaining LCM's first Alto. -- Ian
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Paul McJones wrote:
> > I just looked in some boxes I
> I just looked in some boxes I haven't opened in decades. I have "Mesa
> Language Manual, Version 5.0, April 1979". If the people with the Alto
> need this, let me know.
It’s been scanned:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/mesa/5.0_1979/documentation/CSL_79-3_Mesa_Language_Manual_Version_5.0_Ap
On 6/21/16 8:25 AM, Josh Dersch wrote:
> Yes it was, as was MazeWar and the Laurel mail client (and many other things).
>
Alto software evolved throughout the 70's. It started out bare-bones as they
bootstrapped
themselves up. Mesa was developed in parallel, as was Smalltalk. Mesa is an
Algol
On 6/21/16 9:12 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> I'm not sure that version
> was in Mesa.
I am, since I have the code.
> From: Josh Dersch
>> ISTR that BravoX was written in Mesa. -- Ian
> Yes it was, as was MazeWar
?? There was a MazeWar on the Alto, early on, and I'm not sure that version
was in Mesa. Maybe someone re-implemned it in Mesa for some of the later
machines? (Of course, all the Xerox o
> (*) The original Smalltalk prototype was written in BASIC on a Data
> General Nova. It wasn't very fast.
Wow. Does this code exist anywhere?
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On 6/21/16 8:14 AM, Ian S. King wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Josh Dersch wrote:
Mesa became the basis for much of the software on Xerox's later
D-machines (the Star and its successors). It was compiled into a
byte-coded stack-based machine code (the bytecode interpreter was
implem
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Josh Dersch wrote:
>
>> Mesa became the basis for much of the software on Xerox's later
> D-machines (the Star and its successors). It was compiled into a
> byte-coded stack-based machine code (the bytecode interpreter was
> implemented in microcode on the Alto a
On 6/21/16 6:46 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>From the discussions around Y Combinator's Alto restoration...
(Some may not know that the founder of Y Combinator is Paul Graham,
using some of the money Yahoo! paid him for Viaweb, which became Yahoo
Stores. PG is a Lisp champion and evangelist.)
The Al
On 2016-06-21 9:46 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
From the discussions around Y Combinator's Alto restoration...
(Some may not know that the founder of Y Combinator is Paul Graham,
using some of the money Yahoo! paid him for Viaweb, which became Yahoo
Stores. PG is a Lisp champion and evangelist.)
The
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