[Coco] Basic09

[gene heskett]

On 3/20/25 18:56, Jeff Teunissen via Coco wrote:
> Another benefit of Pascal on OS-9 is that the PascalS interpreter can run
> programs larger than physical memory, by swapping in and out code pages.

I could be imagining this but I believe Mr Brody's forth also could do 
that as I recall seeing it reload a "word" from floppy everytime the 
word was used in the code. At the time I thought it was a bug, & went 
back to microwares broken C (no bit twidlers) but now I recall reading 
about a 120 bed hospital in California running their hospital on a coco2 
using that forth.

That forth was once available from the shack but vanished long before 
the coco3 came out.

>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 14:48 Tony Schountz via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Mar 20, 2025, at 5:21 PM, Carlos Camacho via Coco <
>> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>>> Btw... I understand BASIC09 is like Pascal's pcode approach with virtual
>>> machine of sorts. (Icode?)
>> One of the benefits of Pascal-09 is the ability to send the pcode to asm,
>> which made the final app much faster than equivalent BASIC09. I don’t know
>> if that extended to graphics calls, though.
>>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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