Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/03
From the 1980s: GCS Pascal compiler for 68000 firmware development [WayBack] http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/files/tek/gcsPascal.pdf article by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Paul L. McCuiiough both working for Tektronix back then (note the company still exists after all these years).
via: [WayBack] A PASCAL COMPILER FOR MOTOROLA 68000 FIRMWARE DEVELOPMENT – Pascal is a computer programming language known for itsunique combination of simplicity, pow… – Kyle Miller – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/23
A while ago that bitsavers published a picture of an Apple 1992 Tesseract Motherboard.
It’s from the 68k to PowerPC RISC transition Apple made in the second half of the 1980s and first half of the 1990s where several groups within Apple were working on new equipment.
More details of those are here:
Note this is not [Wayback] TesSeRact from the DOS TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) days:
- [Wayback/Archive.is] INT 2F – TesSeRact RAM-RESIDENT PROGRAM INTERFACE AX = 5453h (less colors and no navigation at the top of the page, but indentation makes it easier to grasp calling register values)
- [Wayback/Archive.is] Int 2F/AX=5453h: Int 2F/AX=5453h TesSeRact RAM-RESIDENT PROGRAM INTERFACE AX = 5453h (seems easier to read because of colorations, but lacks indentation, so it is harder to understand calling register values)
Via [Wayback] Ralf Brown’s Files
Downloadable files by Ralf Brown:x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, RBcomm, SPAWNO, AMISLIB, DV-GLUE, RBdualVGA,RBkeyswap, RBspeed, PCICFG, CMU-EBMT. (20aug10)
–jeroen
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