using LC as an emulator

Mark Wieder ahsoftware at sonic.net
Tue Nov 7 11:07:31 EST 2017


On 11/06/2017 07:00 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
> It's a LOT of code, all of which was originally written 30+ years ago, but
> we've been maintaining it ever since.  Many of the other systems that we
> have written interface with this core, and extend it, since there are much
> better tools available to us, now (like LC).  It's written in HP BASIC for
> an environment called Eloquence, which is an HP 3000/HP250 legacy
> environment that now runs on your stock iron hardware and OS's.

Wow. I almost remember working in hp basic back in the day. My guess is 
that if you're looking at a tangle of code written 30+ years ago, your 
time is better spent analyzing what it does and then creating anew from 
those specs.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com




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