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seven programming languages on one floppy (Developers)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 03.04.2023, 10:55

> I don't think including DEBUG is enough. I don't think including SubC is
> enough. I don't think including P5 Pascal is enough. We need good tools,
> and just one or two won't cut it. (But 130 MB is probably too much.) Look
> how much cool stuff was done back in the day in (limited) QBASIC. Why can
> no one do that anymore? Is Python the new BASIC? What happened to Perl? Why
> are they better than AWK? Turbo C or Turbo Pascal were insanely popular.
> Why can nothing good be written with them anymore?
I agree with that sentiment.

But you stipulated that you want it used.

So you either need to find someone who wants to do a "challenge" for no purpose, or find someone that has a minimal environment (size of floppy) for some reason.

I fit the latter category on two fronts.

One is the "start from debug only" or possibly from switches (or on mainframes, a card reader with hand-punched cards) and then start entering machine code to build up an OS. Either using hex printouts, or not even that.

The other is starting with just public domain material. With that restriction there's not a lot available to put on the floppy.

BTW, do you care if the processor is not x86?

Because I now have an interest in this:

https://cod5.com/citizen-computer.html

Putting pdos-generic on the only PD processor (which implements MIPS).

I'm still trying to come to grips with the concept.

I am familiar with the PC BIOS, and I am familiar with mainframes which have intelligent devices such that there is no BIOS.

I don't know what this is.

PDOS-generic assumes the presence of a pseudo-BIOS. I don't know what that would look like (specifically lines of code) on that proposed machine.

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