Re: Small memory compilers - was SmartPort remapping

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message J7KdnQvJ85FoT8HanZ2dnUVZ_o6knZ2d@comcast.com">news:J7KdnQvJ85FoT8HanZ2dnUVZ_o6knZ2d@comcast.com...
: aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
: > On Dec 9, 8:26 pm, "William Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com>
: > wrote:
: >
: >>It's very interesting, but doesn't belong
: >>in this group. Am I wrong? If I was involved,
: >>I'd have been reprimanded way before this.
: >
: >
: > you said it was off topic.
: >
: > so someone changed the topic :-)
: >
: > and a quote from earlier in the previous topic:
: >
: > ": > : And the problem of writing compilers for small memory
: > : > : machines makes this relevant to this newsgroup. "
: >
: > What if these guys (computer science genius?) figured out how
: > to write the ultimate compiler...  for the Apple II..
:
: They did write compilers for 8K (word) machines, but all their
: compilers I can remember were for machines with ~32-bit words.
:
: Still, that translates to about 32KB, and the interpreter is
: the only thing that has to handle data, so the method should
: be portable to an Apple II...
:
: I just saw that Wikipedia has a Digitek entry:
:
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitek
:
: They developed their methodology for the SDS 900 series of
: computers, using the POP (Programmed OPerator) opcode on those
: machines to host a stack-based virtual machine.  The compiler
: structure was mostly recursive-descent.  A typical operator
: was QSF "string" (Quoted Scan or Fail), which would scan
: the input stream matching "string", or, if the scan did not
: match at some point, the op would "fail" the current procedure
: to its caller.
:
: After Ryan-McFarland, I'm not sure who got the rights to the
: technology, or if anyone is still using it.
:
: (I'm certainly willing to drop it if it has no relevance to
: the Apple II or its users.)
:
: -michael

I'll admit that it may have relevance, but, there is
still a CSA2.programmer group. Why not move this over
there?

William Garber
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