Assembly vs. Everything Else (was: SemiOT: Mourning for ClassicComputing)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sun Aug 19 05:22:38 2001

On Aug 18, 22:29, Derek Peschel wrote:

> Acorn designed a 6502-based computer for the BBC, called (natch) the BBC
> Microcomputer. Sophie Wilson wrote a fine BASIC for the machine. When
> Acorn designed the ARM chip and a line of computers based on that, the
BASIC
> got ported, but I don't know who did that work.

Sophie did. She wrote TWIN (Two WINdow Editor), ChangeFSI (image
manipulation program), and some ray-traced demos as well, and several other
things.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York

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