Also from Ron Mithell to Will Nerini

Re: RonsWeek'n'ADAM reply from Will Nerini

I'd look forward to whatever contribution you'd care to make
Will.  I do have the following here if they are of any use 
to you: 
Manx C compiler and attendant files.   Implements Aztec C 
under CP/M 2.2 or TDOS  Turbo Pascal 3.3 which will run
under TDOS  There is also Microsoft MBASIC 5.?  (something 
or other)  You also ought to have a look at Dale Wick's  
'MIC' compiler. It'll blow your mind. It was distributed to
all of us at ADAMCON 09, and is presently a 'work in 
progress'. Dale has produced a very small, compact, working
compiler that uses syntax like nothing else I've ever seen.
It made up of BASIC, C, PASCAL, DBASE II, you name it. There
 are bits and pieces from everywhere. But it works, and
will produce a .COM file that ADAM can run under TDOS.

As for me, I'm a language junkie. Jack of all trades master
of none and know enough to be dangerous. Have just been on
a spree in the Windows world, picking up the Professional
version of Visual BASIC, V2.0 (what the hell, the price was
right),  Visual Basic 5. (learning edition), Borland C++, 
Visual C++, Borland Turbo Pascal 6, etc, etc etc,  Got 'em 
all installed, one of these days I might even start studying
them. I should add that there is quite a dichotomy in our 
small ADAM world. Those who got curious a few years back
when Tony Morehen and Guy Cousineau (TDOS authors) were 
still active, learned enough about TDOS to be able to use
most CP/M 2.2 software. I was lucky enough to have both of 
these guys as members of my user group in Ottawa up to 
about 1990. So I learned despite myself. Other ADAMites 
freeze at the mention of TDOS, and strongly prefer to 
remain with ADAM's native operating system, EOS., and with 
the  small amount of software Coleco produced as well as 
so pretty darned good after market stuff. If you go to an 
ADAM meeting and so much as mention TDOS, eyes will start 
to glaze over. So the programmer really needs to make use 
of ADAM's user interface (ie the Smartkeys such as display-
ed by Smartwriter), and  produce  product that will be 
reasonably easy to operate from first boot-up. We're not 
much on command lines, input arguements, and command line 
switches and that sort of thing.  
Once had a network administrator at work who told me that 
one day soon all us old DOS 'far*s' would eventually die 
off and then he would be free to do his job. He'd never 
heard of CP/M. Imagine. 

Ron Mitchell


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