dwgumby

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1. 1.▲
   by dwgumby 6mo ago

   When it started it was a scrappy startup, a handful of people. I went there because my old boss, Dave McWherter, essentially was the engineering department. Grew slowly to maybe a hundred people. Then exploded to several times that at least
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   by dwgumby 6mo ago

   > Reviewers were even able to pull cards out of an Apple ][ motherboard, plug them into an ACE machine, and they’d work without any other modifications Which was kind of the point? If I remember correctly Woz had patents related to the v
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   by dwgumby 6mo ago

   I worked at Franklin and was one an early hire. Using the Apple ROM code was an explicit choice. There was no real defined API so a lot of apps called random routines in ROM or referenced arbitrary ROM data and if it wasn’t there the app br
4. 4.▲
   by dwgumby 2y ago

   You're right, I forgot the indirection. Inner Interpreter instruction is actually: JMP [,y++]
5. 5.▲
   by dwgumby 2y ago

   Was playing with a 6809 system not long ago and, yeah, FORTH maps really nicely to it. S reg = parameter stack, U reg = return stack, Y reg = interpreter pointer. Inner interpreter is a single two byte instruction (jmp ,y++). I'd alway