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- From: mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: About Forth for the DEC Rainbow
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 17:39:39 GMT
- Organization: /etc/organization
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- In article <2349@sousa.tay.dec.com> secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.) writes:
- >
- >Any generic CP/M-80 or MS-DOS BIOS-based, "ASCII console-type interface"
- >Forth would be suitable for a Digital Rainbow, e.g. Uniforth, LMI, F83,
- >FIG, etal.
- >
- The DEC Rainbow can run MS-DOS software, but it is not as PC clone.
- Most PC software does not run on it because most PC software assumes the
- computer has PC video displays. The I/O routines that work on the Rainbow
- are too slow to be popular. In addition, the Rainbow wants ANSI terminal
- cusor control codes.
- There are a lot of tricks, patches and a conversion program to get
- IBM-PC programs to work on the Rainbow. I've tried a few programs on
- the Rainbow as well as the similarly handycapped Televideo MS-DOS & CP/M
- computer from the same era. The one program that worked was F83. On the
- Rainbow I had to follow the directions for customizing the editor commands
- for a specific computer terminal. When I substituted ANSI codes for the
- IBM-PC codes, everything worked fine.
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- Michael Coughlin mikc@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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