ideas for a BASIC compiler

Stef wrote:
>
>In comp.arch.embedded,
>
>Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote:
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>> Not to mention the one in my main desk top machine.. a Sinclar Spectrum 
>>:-)
>
>A Spectrum is no good for office use! We all know the Commodore 64 is
>much better. ;-)

Commodore 128.

In CP/M mode.

:)

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Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:

>BTW the 16K ROM BASIC of the original Sinclair Spectrum-48 is a real 
>masterpiece of the assembly programming. One can see the style of the 
>true artist. The TRDOS and BASIC-128k are just crap compared to that.

This one?

http://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/gw03.htm

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In article <slrng52cd3.o7m.aznomad.3@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net>,
AZ Nomad  <aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:23:40 +0100, Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote:
>>In message <slrng50pf2.ef9.aznomad.3@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net>, AZ
>>Nomad <aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> writes
>>>You still run an 8 bit micro on your desktop?
>>>News of the technology of target compilation never made it to the locale
>>>of yoru cave?
>
>
>>Several 8 bit systems. Also my PC has several 8 bit systems in it....
>>added to which there are more embedded systems around the world than
>>PC's by several orders of magnitude and about 30% of them are 8 bit
>>systems
>
>Wow!  You must the last person on earth using an 8 bit system for
>their desktop.  Why the fuck don't you get a job so you can afford
>$10 to buy a used 486?  Then you'd be able to run a compiler for
>a user friendly programming language and do some target compilation.

Probably you are the first person typing on a keyboard with
a dual AMD 5.6 Ghz, instead of one equipped with an 8 bit micro.

You can type so much faster ;-)

Groetjes Albert

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