Re: Acorns & other stuff (was: assembly)

["Robert Speed" <nospam [at] Viclabs.co.uk>]

On 14 Mar 00, at 17:29, Al Hudson wrote:

> I heard about ARX a while ago, never seen it running though. I didn't
> realise anyone had put an ARM on the end of a tube, but there we go. I
Yeah, it's what happened after the simulations, ohhh must have 
been about '84ish, but I didn't get to see anything till '86.

> have access to a Torch up here, which is fun to play with, also got a tube
> knocking about somewhere but they're not as fun ;)
Elite on a second proc 65C12 :)
> 
> > This could have been due to having look up tables for various SWI 
> > and SYS calls.
> 
> Maybe, not sure. I seem to recall they had some dev system which
> automatically generated some stuff, and it was more because of this, or
> something. But this is delving into the haze, so I'm probably wrong ;). 

Ooo - dunno, but it wouldn't suprise me.

> 
> Never had contact with Acorn printing, but on the graphics side it's not
> to bad. Stuff will still keep happening, if only for Millipede.
Yeah, they seem to be plodding along with the Imago, but I think 
it's too little too late - still, nice graphics, but won't be a patch on 
Nvidia stuff.

> 
> > It's still remarkably quick and easy to dev stuff for though, despite 
> > not having anywhere as near as many 'features' as Unix or
> > (spit.. M$ bloat).
> 
> That said (probably true), most people I know dev'ing stuff for Acorns all
> use GNU tools, many use UNIX platforms to do it.. I don't particularly
> like the Acorn environment myself, but some people swear by it.. (or at it
> ;)
There are times......:)



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