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#RetroComputing

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tom jennings

Has anyone given thought to a modern keyboard, and modern character set needs, with CP/M? I think the situation might be close to hopeless; the documentation states explicitly "strip off the 8th bit" eg. 0x7f, so 1968 ASCII it is, but having app subvert the BIOS is common.

Just thought I'd ask before I set the task aside. I'm using a USB keyboard and mapping scan codes straight up; I've done real keyboards with dead keys etc but not for a long time. And honestly don't relish coding it (though I could maybe do it not in the Z80).

But even 512 bytes for a keymap is pushing it. That's 1/128th of total RAM space.

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Riley S. Faelan

Pondering if I dare to put #Fortran into my CV. :blobcatthinking:

I can do some Fortran, partly because it keeps coming up in all sorts of #retrocomputing contexts, but, even with Ratfor enhancements, I don't consider it a well-designed or pleasant language, and I'm not sure I can see myself working at a place that deals in new Fortran code now that nice, human-friendly languages such as NumPy and APL have been invented. Besides, 21st century Fortran is a really weird language that doesn't even know what it wants to be when it grows up.

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