8" floppy project

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

ben franchuk <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> said:
> 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
> supplied by the user and ASM source. While I suspect you can get a
> version for the 8088 I don't expect you can get the source for it.
> Read keyboard, test keyboard ready, print to screen, read disk block,
> write disk block I think is all that is needed.
> Ben.

Versions of FIGForth were available for quite a few processors. 
I've got it running on simh emulating a PDP-11 and I'll copy it
to my Micro 11/73 as soon as I can persuade it to read floppys
written by putr.   I'm running it under RT-11 but it can be compiled 
to run stand-alone.

It's quite possible that FigUK may have a FIG listing in their library 
and I've possibly got a TRS-80 version somewhere.
-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

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