🚀 go-pugleaf

mon...@diablo.amd.com (Steve Monson) writes:
>
>And then there's Paul Roper, (at least formerly) of Ensign Computers in
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Provo, Utah (Hi, Paul!), who delivers his own versions of BASIC, DOS, etc.,
>named (appropriately enough):
>pbasic
>pdos
>
   You omitted PBUG, PNET, PSPELL, and perhaps a few more.

>etc. In all fairness, he's a crack programmer, and has turned out some fine
>code.
   Indubitably.  Also a good friend, but we did kid him about having to have
his name on the cover of the reference manual.  And since he left, we have
had an AWKward time explaining what the "P" in PDOS stands for -- when we
sold a basic interpreter to Texas Instruments, we told them it was really
POWER BASIC -- a case of make up your mind first and adjust the facts
accordingly.  PDOS is still a popular real-time operating system.  We've
experimented with renaming it SPEED DOS but nothing every came of the
attempt.

Brian Cooper   --  br...@eyring.com
Eyring? Iring? EYE-ring? Irving? Irene? Irvine? Ensign??