#Edito

Two Years Before the Masthead

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[author : J. E. Hendrix]

The C programming language is still gaining momentum as a powerful alternative to assembly language. The public domain Small-C compiler published in DDJ was clearly a good subset, but was still a bare-bones compiler. This article introduces the greatly improved Small-C version two. The last half of the program listing will be published next month.

[author : Alan Bomberger]

The problems of "type ahead" under CP/M have kept more than one programmer awake at night looking for a better solution. Author Bomberger illustrates the use of interrupts to provide fully-buffered console input which can be used by CP/M when needed.

[author : Marek W. Michalski]

Anyone writing graphics routines must confront vector generation head-on. This paper deals with graphics displays for eight-bit microprocessors. He has tried to find a fast, hardware-independent algorithm and provides an illustration of its implementation.

[author : Richard Grigonis]

What will be the next evolutionary step for computers? What should it be? This contributor from the forward-looking Children’s Television Workshop takes an educated look into technology’s crystal ball...

[author : Ray Duncan]

Custom character sets and lo-res color graphics for IBM’s PC; hex and binary conversion.

[author : Jan-Henrik Johansson]

Small-C I/O redirection and command-line arguments.

[author : Michael Wiesenberg]