[Coco] Mike Smith

[Boisy Pitre]

That's too bad.  When I worked at Microware I was regularly in touch  
with Mike, but lost contact with him after I left the company.  I did  
a search on the Internet and found this link: http:// 
www.toedtmanngrosse.com/index.cfm


On Mar 2, 2007, at 9:22 AM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:33:16 -0600, Dean Leiber  
> <adit at 1stconnect.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2007, at 11:42 AM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>>
>>> OmniBasic is/was a commercial endeavor that was pretty close to  
>>> BASIC09 (it was originally a basic compiler for OSK), that was  
>>> cross-platform between OSK, DOS, Windows and Linux. They were  
>>> starting on a native Windows only version again (I have a very  
>>> early beta), but development of that seems to have stopped. We  
>>> use the cross platform version 2.1 here at my work, and have  
>>> since Omni-Basic for DOS 1.43, and early 1.2x versions on OS-9000.
>>>
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken, the gentleman who designed the TC-70 Tomcat  
>> for FHL	was involved with the creation of Omnibasic, hence the OSK  
>> support.
>>
>> Dean
>     Michael Smith was the one man show behind Omni Basic... and I  
> just found out that he died of a heart attack a couple of weeks  
> ago. Innomation Systems is supposed to get back to me on whether  
> they will try to continue the project without him. He was recoding  
> Omni for Windows only (the Linux sales from 2.0-2.2 were not that  
> good), and it was compiling straight to assembly, with no C code in  
> the middle. I have a very early beta of that compiler (we were on  
> the official beta list from 1.27 for DOS, and on from there), and  
> it did compile faster and made smaller executables, but at that  
> time (December, 2003, version 0.2), it was a VERY limited beta  
> without a lot of functionality (basically, just to show us which  
> direction he was going in). When I hear from Innomation, I will let  
> everybody know. I do know that the new version was a complete  
> rewrite from the old...
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> L. Curtis Boyle
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