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Iain Nicholson (ia...@de...) on Sunday, August 20, 2000 at 08:38:46
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type: comment

othersubj: ZX81 alternative OS

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message: Dear Scott,

I have just downloaded you history of computers and operating systems from
freshmeat. It is very interesting. I read the sinclair file first because
my first computer was a 1K ZX81. For that machine, I had a replacement ROM
chip (8K EPROM) with a FORTH implementation made by Skywave Software, from
Bournemouth in England if memory serves me correctly. It has preemptive
real-time multi-tasking. It's in a cupboard at my parent's house
still. From time to time I have searched the Net to see if anyone has an
image of that ROM that I could download to run on an emulator. I haven't
found one. One day I would like to boot up the old '81 and copy the ROM
across to my PC, but my knowledge of hardware is a bit sketchy, so
building an serial interface could be tricky.
Anyway, I thought you'd be interested in that info since your project
includes operating systems.


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