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seven programming languages on one floppy (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 19.03.2023, 03:16

Apparently there was work done on an open-source CP/M 2.2 clone called CP/Mish by David Given.

He talked about it on his website with an interesting YouTube video of his Amstrad NC200 laptop. So a Z80 laptop with 720 kb floppy drive and 128 kb of RAM in 1993!

Long story short, he put seven programming languages on the 720 kb floppy.

* BDS C
* MS FORTRAN-80
* MS COBOL-80
* Turbo Pascal
* MS BASIC
* BBC BASIC
* FIG Forth

As pointless as some people consider it, I've long wondered what (in theory) to put on a 1.44 MB 3.5" programming floppy for FreeDOS.

However, my criteria are that it must be Free/Libre (i.e. redistributable) and must actually be used by someone! So no toys or hacks that no one will ever use. (Auxiliary programming tools are also welcome, e.g. vi or ctags or make.)

Any suggestions? (There has to be at least one tool that we can all agree upon.)

MAWK, miniSed, P5 Pascal, Alice Pascal, SmallerC, SubC, PicoC, DX Forth, NASM16 or TinyAsm, FASMD, a72, BWBASIC, SmallAda, ???

Complete thread:

• seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 19.03.2023, 03:16 (Developers)
  • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 21.03.2023, 05:39
    • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 25.03.2023, 04:12
      • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 25.03.2023, 05:34
        • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 27.03.2023, 09:25
          • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 28.03.2023, 04:00
            • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 28.03.2023, 12:29
              • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 03.04.2023, 12:03
            • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 02.04.2023, 08:08
              • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 03.04.2023, 03:04
                • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 03.04.2023, 10:33
                  • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 03.04.2023, 10:55
                    • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 14.04.2023, 02:30
                      • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 15.04.2023, 23:42
                      • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 26.05.2023, 02:17
                        • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 26.05.2023, 11:07
                        • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 26.05.2023, 23:23
                          • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 31.05.2023, 17:36
                            • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 02.06.2023, 23:07
                              • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 15.06.2023, 04:16
                    • seven programming languages on one floppy - DosWorld, 16.04.2023, 00:32
                      • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 16.04.2023, 01:32
                        • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 14.01.2024, 10:00
                • seven programming languages on one floppy - marcov, 04.04.2023, 10:49
            • seven programming languages on one floppy - Rugxulo, 10.04.2023, 06:57
        • seven programming languages on one floppy - jhall, 27.03.2023, 17:56
          • seven programming languages on one floppy - kerravon, 28.03.2023, 04:04