Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[jfoust@threedee.com]

In article <377DADE9.BC6D599E@sprintmail.com>,
  robertdell@sprintmail.com wrote:
> I have written programs for a wide variety of computers (TRS-80,Apple
//,NEC,Hewlett Packard 9836A(HPL 2.0, HP BASIC, HP
Pascal,embly),Cromemco,
Medfly => (cross between Apple // and Apple /// computer), Terak 8510-A
(I'm not sure if it's this one or this is the dumb terminal of the
computer but it executes p-code directly without an interpreter),

No, actually the Terak was a standalone computer, and it
used the PDP-11 style of CPU, and it ran the UCSD P-System
p-codes via a virtual machine in software.  See the web
page at <http://www.threedee.com/jcm/> for more info.

- John


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