Re: [colorforth] Significant work

[Nick Maroudas <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Tim Neitz wrote:

>
> Martin, Tim here.
>
> Peter Appelman and myself have been working on a vt52 emulator for
> colorforth. Our goal on a longer term is vt100 emulation forming a
> telnet client. Currently, it makes use of the serial port and
> acts as a terminal, for as an example a unix machine.
>
> I use a colorforth workstation now for most of my work. This was my original
> motivation. I can run most unix text mode utilities some examples are: bash,
> telnet, ssh, less, man, screen, vi, elm, mutt, irc and lynx. What this has
> mainly gotten me, is that now I am able to use colorforth +- 40 hours a
> week. This was only +-4 hours a week previously.
>
> It uses an interrupt driven recieve buffer.
> allowing baud rates of 115200 easily.
>
> If you have a use for this code, or parts of it feel free to reach
> me at tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or via irc #c4th on the IRCnet.
>
> I would also like to thank Mark Slicker for his help, He supplied the basis
> for the keyboard driver. And helped me get a start in colorforth
> conceptually.
>
> And of course, Dr. Moore for his outstanding contributions to the
> field of computer science.
>
> With kindregards,
>
> Tim Neitz.
> #c4th on IRCnet
>
>
Dear Tim

From 4 hours of use to 40 pw in one big step!  Does this mean I could use
CF for dial-up mail through my 115200 Hz modem on Com1?  Currently running
telnet with Linux.

But my CF is Chuck's Masm version - would that have to change to Nasm?

Nick Maroudas






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