charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green) (07/18/86)
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[The irresistable force meets the immovable object! Film at eleven...]
I recently received my fig-FORTH disk from the Antic magazine software
catalog. In order to force myself to learn about the language (which is why
I bought the disk), I want to write my own terminal emulator in FORTH.
However, the disk contains a terminal emulator program which, when run,
continuously displays garbage. Upon closer inspection, it appears that the
FORTH kernel (?terminology) never downloads from the serial interface.
I take this to mean that the 850 interface code is "hardwired" into FORTH,
making it, at least, difficult to use ICD's P:R: Connection in its place.
While the $10 price tag is hard to beat, I *am* still trying to wade through
FORTH texts and the spartan documentation screens, and would probably grow
quickly frustrated if the solution involves any heavy "hacking".
Does anyone have any experience with this combination? Perhaps some low-level
words to act as a "patch" have been created by someone?
Also, I received Atari DOS 4.0 from Antic at the same time. I currently have
DOS 2.0, and have sent the DOS 3.0 diskette from my 1050 disk drive back to
Atari to be up(down?)graded to DOS 2.5. If there is interest, I can post a
comparison of the various systems, or perhaps Email to interested parties.
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-Charles Green at C3 Inc. {styx!seismo,cvl,dolqci}!decuac!c3pe!charles
"I ain't hardware, but they's sure times I wish I could say I wasn't software!"striepe@muscat.UUCP (07/19/86)
When we started playing around with fig-Forth, we never thought that stuff would travel as far as it has (I would have never signed my name to it...). Anyway, I have no idea what state the ANTIC PD disk is in. However, I just dug out my original version. The 850 code is NOT imbedded by the system, but downloaded with GETR:. The sources are on the source disk. I would love to hear about the abandoned Atari DOS 4.0. There also was a DOS XL 4.x from OSS, but I trust it is different. Prior to using SpartaDOS, I thought DOS XL was best for people used to commandline interfaces. But on an XL machine, SpartaDOS V3.2 has got them all beat! -- Harald Striepe DEC Corporate Software Products Group, Santa Clara, CA decwrl!muscat!striepe, decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-winery!striepe, WINERY::STRIEPE