XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 18:48:06 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
      
   > On 09/01/2026 16:02, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >> The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   >>> On 09/01/2026 02:02, rbowman wrote:   
   >>>> On Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:09:03 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> rbowman  writes:   
   >>>>>> On Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:57:26 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> I hated Wirthian languages from the start and still do. Just bad   
   >>>>>>> chemistry, I guess.  But I couldn't stand having some snooty   
   >>>>>>> compiler slap my wrist and tell me that I couldn't do what I could   
   >>>>>>> do in a couple of lines of assembly language.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Ever run into PL/M?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I have a listing of the PL/M 8080 cross-compiler somewhere in   
   >>>>> storage.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> iirc the Mostek AID-80F development system had a native PL/M   
   >>>> implementation. It was almost, but not quite, CP/M.   
   >>>>   
   >>> PL/M was a language. CP/M was almost an operating system   
   >>   
   >> So?  Mr. Bowman's comment referred to the AID-80F development system.   
   >   
   > Did it? It was ambiguous.   
      
   https://deramp.com/mostek.html   
      
   To clarify, the system ran M/OS-80 which was very much like CP/M. I   
   believe there was an implementation of the PL/M language available. It's   
   been a day or two. I know I used it to burn EPROMs but I worked with the   
   Z80 assembler, not PL/M.   
      
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