Gareth's Downstairs Computer
 wrote:
> On 28/04/2018 18:50, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>>  writes:
>>> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>>> Personally the reason I’m waiting for a low-hassle 64-bit OS before
>>>> getting a Pi3 is that I want to acquire some familiarity with ARMv8
>>>> assembler.
>>>
>>> And, subject to the availability of USB enumeration, something
>>> no more sophisticated than a CP/M 64 would suit very well!!
>>
>> Sounds appalling. It’s not 1980 any more.
>
> I'd accept that sentiment when a processor comes along that
> directly executes C, with the ASCII source being also the
> machine's code.

You should check out the SYMBOL machine designed and built in the 1970s (at
the University of Iowa, IIRC).

> Similar calims made for FORTH machines have at least
> required lexical analysis.
>
> a chacun son gout
>
>
>



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