Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: \"Stamp out BASIC\" committee Message-ID: <975@opus.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 02:03:39 EST Article-I.D.: opus.975 Posted: Fri Dec 14 02:03:39 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:11:10 EST References: <6459@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 21 [Not that much about BASIC, really...] > ... > >>> Yeah! Stamp out BASIC! Here at Tektronix we stamp out lots of BASICs > >>> every day, some in ROMs and some on disks. We sell them to > >>> applications programmers and make piles of money. Yeah, and you occasionally don't hide them too well, which is good for grins. Some while ago I had an opportunity to poke at a gadget which Tek makes that's used for looking at TV broadcast signal waveforms. Although it was really presented as a packaged tool, it was pretty evident from its behavior that it had the standard little-BASIC system inside. A few attempts at commands dredged from my memory of old GE timeshare BASIC got a (squashed) listing of the program for the sampling. It took a total of perhaps half an hour to have the box drawing pretty spirals and such instead of silly-looking waveforms. No complaints really (the original program was still in non-volatile memory), but I don't think that a small BASIC interpreter is the best way to build an embedded system. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Are you making this up as you go along?