Jun 85 Letters
Volume Number: 1
Issue Number: 7
Column Tag: Letters
Neon Wanted
Your publication is the best investment I have ever made. I’m a sucker for good
deals, so please send me back issues 1-3 and source code disk #1. Please consider
covering Kriya Systems NEON programming language. Also, please consider allowing
me access to the MOUSEHOLE. Actually, I’m a hardware man (having successfully
installed the programmer’s switch), but I’m getting there, wherever that may be.
-Edward Jung
Seattle, WA.
[Look for NEON starting next month ]
Mac Lisp vs Symbolics
In reply to the Terminator’s remarks about ExperLisp in the April 85 issue, I
agree that Lisp on the Mac will be a delight. Although I find it’s $500 price tage a bit
steep myself, ExperLisp will offer more than any other available Microcomputer Lisp
(mainly compilation of code). However, I find it questionable that ExperLisp code will
be upward compatible with Symbolics’ ZetaLisp. In fact, ExperLisp will not support
FLAVORS, the abstract data objects upon which most of the Symbolics operating system
is built. About the magazine: it’s a hacker’s delight! It’s refreshing to read a magazine
with an abundance of useable information. I do hope, however, that you are planning to
produce the magzine on the LaserWriter soon. [YES, if ours ever arrives!]
-Rick Munoz, SF, CA.
Help, Steve, with Serial I/O
What is the MDS Equate File, SysEquate.Txt referred to in Mr. Brecher’s
Advanced Mac’ing Column? I have a desperate need to program the baud rate of the
Z8530 to something other than the standards available. Can you help?
-Mark Wardas
La Jolla, CA.
[The MDS equate file SysEquates.Txt is the System Equates file described in Inside
Macintosh that has the addresses of the SCC chip. Get Inside Mac or buy the Apple
Assembler, or Software Supplement.]
Animation Techniques
My method of animation is based on an off-screen copy of the GrafPort; all