Re: Basic09
gene heskett via Coco <coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/[email protected]>
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On 3/20/25 18:56, Jeff Teunissen via Coco wrote: > Another benefit of Pascal on OS-9 is that the PascalS interpreter can run > programs larger than physical memory, by swapping in and out code pages. I could be imagining this but I believe Mr Brody's forth also could do that as I recall seeing it reload a "word" from floppy everytime the word was used in the code. At the time I thought it was a bug, & went back to microwares broken C (no bit twidlers) but now I recall reading about a 120 bed hospital in California running their hospital on a coco2 using that forth. That forth was once available from the shack but vanished long before the coco3 came out. > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 14:48 Tony Schountz via Coco <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Mar 20, 2025, at 5:21 PM, Carlos Camacho via Coco < >> [email protected]> wrote: >>> Btw... I understand BASIC09 is like Pascal's pcode approach with virtual >>> machine of sorts. (Icode?) >> One of the benefits of Pascal-09 is the ability to send the pcode to asm, >> which made the final app much faster than equivalent BASIC09. I don’t know >> if that extended to graphics calls, though. >> >> -- >> Coco mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco >> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis -- Coco mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco