The 186 had on-chip stuff (timers, an interrupt controller, and so forth) at I/O addresses where the PC had different stuff offboard, thus precluding the possibility of a 100% PC compatible 186 machine. So there were a few interesting, not-quite-PC DOS machine designs running a 186 out there.
I used to enjoy LOGO when I was a kid. Used Microworlds EX to make games. Shame it has fallen out of favor as an educational tool. Taught me a lot about scripting and paying attention to syntax.
Have you seen the adult version? It's called NetLOGO and comes in both 2D and 3D forms. It is used for multi-agent modeling, which makes it ideal for things like the flocking algorithm that has multiple points all doing their own things based on a small set of rules.
Despite its educational focus and reputation as a language for children, UCBLogo (a dialect of Logo from 1992 intended for being a “minimum Logo standard”) seems to be quite advanced and also has some “adult” features (partially derived from its Lisp heritage), such as higher-order functions, eval & apply, recursion, anonymous functions (or rather something similar called “templates”) and macros.
However, NetLogo feels more like a modern version of Logo without some of the weird/unfamiliar stuff (like dynamic scoping and words). It is heavily used and taught at https://www.complexityexplorer.org , so if anyone is curious enough I recommend taking a look at their free courses/tutorials such as “Fundamentals of NetLogo” or “Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling” - they are probably the best resources out there to learn NetLogo.
You can download them both, and then they come with a huge sorted directory of different models and whatnot, so you can view the source as well. It's truly amazing stuff.
That actually looks perfect! I never thought of Logo as a data processing language or anything like that, but I have always associated it with making games because it is so well suited for it. This is pretty much exactly what I was missing about using LOGO. Im going to keep my eye on this! Thanks
I learned C in 1984 when it still primitive, played with Forth because it was cool, but used Pascal at work. Add to that the APL I briefly played with in graduate school. In those days the choice of languages was almost small enough to try all of them. Today it's impossible.
Idk why but even highly knowledgeable people capitalize random tech words. In the Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate, Tanenbaum regularly calls it LINUX (maybe a habit because UNIX is smallcaps'd per the trademark?). Lisp is often called LISP (check Wikiquote for ample examples), although this is forgivable since Lisp really did used to be an all-caps acronym.
"Some people are confused over whether this word is appropriately ‘UNIX’ or ‘Unix’; both forms are common, and used interchangeably. Dennis Ritchie says that the ‘UNIX’ spelling originally happened in CACM's 1974 paper The UNIX Time-Sharing System because “we had a new typesetter and troff had just been invented and we were intoxicated by being able to produce small caps.” Later, dmr tried to get the spelling changed to ‘Unix’ in a couple of Bell Labs papers, on the grounds that the word is not acronymic. He failed, and eventually (his words) “wimped out” on the issue. So, while the trademark today is ‘UNIX’, both capitalizations are grounded in ancient usage; the Jargon File uses ‘Unix’ in deference to dmr's wishes.
And they missed assembly, COBOL and BASIC which probably was the other 49% of professional programming. Though they may have had a different context in mind when they wrote this.
The page has a link to "RUN SOFTWARE". The link opens a 'BBC Micro' emulator that runs the software shown on the thumbnail.
You can edit the program in all its 1980's Acorn Basic glory.
Btw, "Acorn" is the "A" in "ARM", as in billions of CPUs today, and the BBC Micro is the inspiration behind the Raspberry Pi.