XPost: alt.folklore.computers
From: tnp@invalid.invalid
On 09/01/2026 20:27, rbowman wrote:
> 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 know. I've used one.
> > 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.
>
My point was that it was M/OS-80 that was like CP/M not PL/M
>
>
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