6809 (was: Anybody ever use Aztec C for APPLEII?)

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed Apr 28 17:59:10 2004

> case, an inadaquate keyboard (CoCo1) and artifically limiting system software (for
> example, the CoCo ROM's required DP to be "Page Zero" - and hogged most of it).

But the ROM could be switched out and the machine run with a RAM-only
memory map. If you had any sense you booted OS-9 which did this and which
gave you a multi-tasking OS, the best I/O system I've ever come across,
and some very nice languages (a decent C, ISO level 0 PASCAL, and the
best BASIC I have ever used on a micro [1]).

[1] Yes, this does include BBC Basic. IMHO BASIC-09 was better than even
that language. It supported user-defined types for one thing, and the
ability to call subroutines written in other languages.

-tony
Received on Wed Apr 28 2004 - 17:59:10 BST