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> Surfing over to https://www.saildart.org/[ALF,DEK]/ https://www.saildart.org/[ALF,DEK]/ and clicking on ALPHA.LST on the left, shows code that looks like it's
by acqq 7y ago
> Surfing over to https://www.saildart.org/[ALF,DEK]/ https://www.saildart.org/[ALF,DEK]/ and clicking on ALPHA.LST on the left, shows code that looks like it's for an 8080 to me
Wow, thanks for that! Yes it is surely 8080 code (at least, 8080 mnemonics, definitely not 8088 which are different, 8008 initially used other mnemonics than in that LST, then the 8080 mnemonics were applied to 8008 too, but 8008 needed more hardware to use, so it should be 8080 in CRS then).
Also thanks for the STAN-CS-82-901. Now the story of programming CRS is quite clear. And even as a poor scan, it can be compared to doi.org/10.1145/2363.2367
Did I understand correctly, for CRS, what was uploaded were never bitmap fonts but always the "curves" of the letters? I believe 100 bitmap images in the resolution of 1024x768 were too much for the whole setup, even only for the cache?
And... I'm not surprised that Knuth managed to develop that firmware after I've discovered this story ("The Summer Of 1960 (Time Spent with don knuth)"):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856567
As you see I'm also really interested in everything you can tell about Autologic APS-5, both how it worked and how it was used in TeX context!