Hi All, Recently, I was reading the first 78 pages of Gary Kildall 1993 unpublished book's: "Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry"
that you could download from this webpage: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/in-his-own-words-gary-kildall/ On page 42, I found this reference about Tom Pittman (creator of Compile-It and many Programs and Developer Tools) "Tom is the first personal computer developer and user. (Later, Tom wrote Tiny-C, for which he is best known.) Clever Tom wrote a "monitor" for the 4004, and a small assembler that actually ran on the SIM4-01 itself. This, in effect, was the first self-hosted single chip microprocessor development system. Tom's "monitor" took 257 bytes, one more than the 1702 EPROM could hold. He condensed that to 256 bytes without changing the monitor. Ask him how he did it if you run into old Tom, or if you ask me, maybe I'll tell you." 23 years after Gary Kildall wrote this, you could learn the answer from Tom Pittman himself if you live in Portland (or near). >From July 25 through August 11, 2017 Computer Science department of Portland State University will offer the NWAPW, an intensive three-week program for students who are highly motivated by their interest in the field of computer science. Tom Pittman joined this year staff: http://nwapw.org/instructors/ Of course, if you do not live in Portland, you could always write him to his website's email direction. In his website, there is an article that he wrote before The Computer Museum published Gary Kildall's book first 78 pages, but this article does not answer this question. http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/Essays/My1stComputer.htm Al _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
