68k homebuilts

Chris Kennedy chris at mainecoon.com
Thu Dec 11 23:34:26 CST 2008


Jim Battle wrote:

> In 1985 I was fresh out of school, moved to Sunnyvale CA to work for BTI
> Computer Systems, and in within two weeks of starting work had been
> through the first round of layoffs. 

First round then, maybe -- trust me, there were a bunch well before then ;)

[snip]

> Next I found the source for a 68K monitor program, call VuBug.  As I
> recall the 68K assembler was in the BTI dialect of FORTRAN.  I believe
> it was a version of RM Fortran (Ryan McFarland).

That would probably be right.  Aside from the Dragon complier and the
assembler I think pretty much everything in the timeframe in question
was purchased from RM.

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