8" floppy project

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Tony Duell wrote:
> 
> > Cheating a bit, but how about FIGforth? I believe it is truely public 
> > domain, and as it runs on the bare metal, it could be claimed to include 
> > the OS. I assume there was/is a version of the 8088.
> 
> Yes, but try and find it today.  Fig forth is for the 8080 and 6502 with I/O

What did happen to all the FIGforth source listings? I am very suprised 
they're not on an ftp site somewhere (but yes, I have looked :-()

> supplied by the user and ASM source. While I suspect you can get a

It ran on a darn sight more than those 2 processors. There was certainly 
a Z80-specific version (I bought the listing for that), a 6809 version, a 
PDP11/LSI11 version, and probably a lot more.

> PS did the Jupiter Ace ever have floppy disk?

Not offiically, but I wouldn't be suprised if somebody had hacked one on.

-tony