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I'm curious if anyone remembers this--I remember an ad, probably in Byte magazine, for a laptop (this was way before laptops were commonplace.) It was thin and
by abruzzi 4y ago
I'm curious if anyone remembers this--I remember an ad, probably in Byte magazine, for a laptop (this was way before laptops were commonplace.) It was thin and kind of teardrop shaped, and instead of BASIC, the built in programming language was Ada. I doubt it ever shipped, because 30 years later I've never been able to find anything about it, though I'd be curious to know if my memory is playing tricks on me.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoI'm finding it hard to imagine that you'd get built-in ADA running on 80s hardware, or that there would be much of a market for it if you did. ADA is a mil-spec compiled language often used for embedded control. It took a long time to implement a full compiler and the smallest machines it ran on were minis. The closest thing - and it's really not close at all - is probably the FORTH-based Jupiter Ace, designed by the people who designed the ZX Spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
- jgrahamc 4y agoThat's incorrect. Ada was available from multiple sources for CP/M and DOS machines. For example, there was Artek Ada, SuperSoft Ada, JANUS/Ada, alsys Ada, Telesoft Ada, ...
- jgrahamc 4y agoI would search Ada in the Internet Archive's complete BYTE collection. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine
- jecel 4y agoAre you sure it was Ada and not APL like in the Ampere WS-1 from the ad on this page? https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-05-rescan/page/n153/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-05-rescan/pag...
- abruzzi 4y agothat could be it. I wouldn't have thought APL just because, well APL is so far out there with so many custom glyphs. Thanks, I'll have to dig more into this.