Hello,
I've been quite interested in picking up a DECmate for a while as one of my more favorite examples of microcomputers built around miniaturized implementations of larger systems. They don't seem quite as common or inexpensive as they used to be, so if I end up looking into a nice example I'd like to be able to use it as more than just a word processor. After reading through a couple of FAQs, prior threads here and looking for DEC documentation, I can't seem to find anything too obvious that mentions what kinds of tools were actually available for developing on the platform, particularly on OS/278. Did DEC officially offer any languages like BASIC, FOCAL or FORTRAN as on the "real" 8s?
Thank you for reading!
I've been quite interested in picking up a DECmate for a while as one of my more favorite examples of microcomputers built around miniaturized implementations of larger systems. They don't seem quite as common or inexpensive as they used to be, so if I end up looking into a nice example I'd like to be able to use it as more than just a word processor. After reading through a couple of FAQs, prior threads here and looking for DEC documentation, I can't seem to find anything too obvious that mentions what kinds of tools were actually available for developing on the platform, particularly on OS/278. Did DEC officially offer any languages like BASIC, FOCAL or FORTRAN as on the "real" 8s?
Thank you for reading!