Posts by flashydave

The wild world of non-C operating systems

Re: Jupiter ACE

I wrote most of Kuma Computers FORTH implementations for things like Sharp MZ80K MZ80B, Newbrain, Tatung Einstein, Osborne 1, Tulip computer, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and several other Forths for 68k series boards and some military machines as well as for IBM PC.

All were written in Forth (using inbuilt compiler and assembler or even cross-assembler when moving to a new platform).

Biggest mission critical application was my Walton Hindsight RARE/ARR radar recorder in use at CAA for many years in the 1990s and 2000s used to record air traffic movement and Comms. Ran on multiple 68k machines and can be seen working at the National Computer Museum at Bletchley Park.

Four techies flummoxed for hours by flickering 'E' on monitor

Also Standby Generators

Like the once per month “magic corruption" of analogue radar recording tapes ion a system I designed – only to discover behind the wall on which the shelf the tapes were stored on was the company's huge stand-by generator which was test started – you guessed it - once per month!!