Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Ah, the 'bad ol' days'

Jon Elson wrote:

> We loaded FOCAL, an interpreted language similar to
> some early minicomputer BASICs on it once, and it couldn't keep up with an
> ASR-33 teletype!

FOCAL was indeed interpreted but was based on ALGOL and therefore block oriented. Users of Pascal would feel very comfortable. I
guess I was so happy to have something that worked that I never noticed the slowness.

Dave