#Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[author : Jonathan Miles]
Last year’s most widely acclaimed DDJ article was part one of this series, which covers the activities of the Z-88 Project. The author’s latest contribution covers some features of the XASM-86 development language and of Intel’s 8087 Numeric Data Processor chip.
[author : Egil Kvaleberg]
A down-to-earth addition to the toolkit of anyone who uses and prepares programs for diskettes. This program is written to be compiled by Ron Cain’s Small-C compiler (see our back issues, esp. #45 and #48) and is meant to be used in a CP/M environment. Its appeal is even broader in scope, as it is written in a high-level language and has a general, easily adaptable structure.
[author : Peter Zilahy Ingerman]
Check digits — once you know how to use them - can be much more than just simple error indicators. They can tell if there was one error or several, what the errors most likely were, and the probable correction.
[author : Alan Bomberger]
New proofreading and spelling correction programs seem to appear every month. Dictionaries contain more words, and editing functions become (somewhat) less cumbersome - yet most still leave much to be desired. This version is published to foster wider interest in the features and foibles of such software. Can anyone find a better way?
[author : Marty Franz]
When this author opted for CP/M over his older Pet, he found the environment he needed for language development. This article describes some of the implementation details of his Forth-like Runic, an interactive, extensible compiler described in last month’s issue.
Wherein readers correspond, despond, describe and diatribe over their upsets, subsets, sobriquets and sob stories.
[author : D. E. Cortesi]
Among the many cases and cures at the Clinic is a special patient; help our Intern ease the hyperbole!
[author : D. E. Cortesi]
As usual, the tides of industry brought bushels of press releases to our editorial shores. The foremost amid the flotsam can be found in this column...
[author : D. C. Shoemaker]
[author : D. C. Shoemaker]
[author : Jerry Chamkis]
[author : George W. Jolly]
[author : H. T. Gorden]
[author : James Cardell]