https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2014/11/09/lazy-readong-for-20141109/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Mon, 10 Nov 2014 04:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2014/11/09/lazy-readong-for-20141109/comment-page-1/#comment-298678 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 04:22:45 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=15002#comment-298678 DG Nova, remember that – the Cobol system allowed multi-user access to its programs. We had a text editor in Cobol so we could make source changes during work time so as to minimise the down time when switching to single user for compiling.
There was a microprocessor version used in the DG MPT/100 a desktop computer – complete with Fortran compiler. It had no memory protection and when combined with Fortran’s pass by reference allowed constants to be overwritten far too easily. It’s a nasty bug when “n = 1” does not work as expected!

]]> https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2014/11/09/lazy-readong-for-20141109/comment-page-1/#comment-298664 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:21:32 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=15002#comment-298664 I used forth like VM in several projects, never had that book; I have “FORTH: a text and a reference”. I did find an earlier release of the PDF and refered to when porting a version of EForth.

]]> https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2014/11/09/lazy-readong-for-20141109/comment-page-1/#comment-298652 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:17:43 +0000 http://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=15002#comment-298652 The echo does seem creepy as all hell….but I can admit there are times that the vocal timer and shopping list stuff would be cool. If it was just that, I think I’d actually like it more.

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