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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