[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

Fred Cisin via cctalk [04/06/2023 02.50]: On Sun, 4 Jun 2023, Alexander Schreiber wrote: So the Mercedes T model was (at least in Germany, the manufacturers country) never called a "station wagon" because that category name doesn't exist there. The closest analogue to it in German parlance would

[cctalk] Re: FOSBIC Compiler

Veit, Holger via cctalk [07/07/2023 09.43]: Hi all, maybe someone here is interested in the FOSBIC (FORTRAN Simulated BASIC Interpretive Compiler) system. Compiles fine, the tests I have run works as intended. It is still a batch system, i.e. on has to provide the BASIC program as a file (

[cctalk] Re: Borland Turbo C++ and Turbo Basic - Books and Manuals

ben via cctalk [07/04/2024 20.05]: I don't think bottles would be ship able. Now a keg of beer might be. Or a least the old oak kegs you read in stories. No problem to ship beer bottles, just pack them in diapers. We do this all the time in the Norwegian homebrew competitions. Now, diapers ar

[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

Fred Cisin via cctalk [24/04/2024 02.06]: Did the Dimension 68000 (a multi-processor machine) have Z80 and 6502? Commodore 128 had Z80 and 6502 Z80 and 8502, actually. -- Hilsen Harald

[cctalk] Re: BASIC

Gavin Scott via cctalk [02/05/2024 05.44]: BASIC was always a popular language in the Hewlett-Packard world. From the HP 2000 timesharing BASIC that was popular in educational settings similar to the original DTSS, To BASIC/3000 on the HP 3000 which was a first-class language with both interpret

[cctalk] Re: APL (Was: BASIC

Paul Koning via cctalk [07/05/2024 19.31]: (Then again, I had a classmate who was taking a double major: math and music composition...) Mathemathics and music is not a rare combination - see Tom Lehrer, for instance. -- Hilsen Harald

[cctalk] Re: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)

Liam Proven via cctalk [31/05/2024 18.07]: My first fiancée's dad had what he reckoned was the first mainframe in Norway. Was it this: - in Norwegian, machine translation work ok.

[cctalk] Re: Data General MV/8000 emulator announcement

Liam Proven via cctalk [2024-10-07 11:10:56]: Have you tried to run any libc5-program lately? Or a.out binaries? Does WordPerfect 8 (released in 1998) count? If so, yes, I have: https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/20/wordperfect_for_unix_for_linux/ Instructions to install it yourself: https

[cctalk] Re: Data General MV/8000 emulator announcement

Maciej W. Rozycki [2024-10-07 12:04:29]: FWIW compiling 25 years old a piece of software is even tougher, unless you use contemporary tools in a contemporary environment, so while the availability of the source code is surely always worth appreciating, the challenge to make them run is not any

[cctalk] Re: Data General MV/8000 emulator announcement

Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk [2024-10-05 16:51:13]: On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote: As the software is binary only it won't be "Forever", but only until the next major change in Windows or Linux APIs which breaks binary compatibility. Linux maintains backwards ABI compati

[cctalk] Re: AI? Really?

Fred Cisin via cctalk [2025-01-27 15:37:46]: Whereas, the catflap may simply be product development/evolution from gates that were sufficiently porous that cats could squeezze through? Cats don't really need catflags: -- Hilsen Ha

[cctalk] Re: Try Algol 68 on Windows

Paul Koning via cctalk [2025-01-14 01:42:00]: Interpreting or compiling are implementation options entirely independent of the language. I don't know of ALGOL 60 interpreters but there's no reason why one could not be built. You'll find a couple here: