{"id":59664,"date":"2023-12-11T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=cfcf7a7973bcfd4ac60b52bcbe7712b5"},"modified":"2023-12-11T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T06:00:34","slug":"cowgol-development-environment-comes-to-z80-and-cp-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59664","title":{"rendered":"Cowgol Development Environment Comes to Z80 and CP\/M"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Hack a Day<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: The thing I like about cowgol and a bunch of the related projects is they're headed toward self-hosting environments. \nSimple self-hosting computers are - intellectually speaking - important for learning to reason about systems, and almost an extinct species except for actually historical systems.<\/div>
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Cowgol on Z80 running CP\/M<\/a> ties together everything needed to provide a Cowgol development environment (including C and assembler) on a Z80 running the CP\/M operating system, making it easier to get up and running with a language aimed to be small, bootstrapped, and modern.<\/p>\n

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Cowgol<\/a> is an experimental modern language for (very) small systems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Zilog Z80 was an 8-bit microprocessor common in embedded systems of the 1970s and 1980s, and CP\/M was a contemporary mass-market operating system. As for Cowgol<\/a>? It’s an Ada-inspired compiler toolchain and programming language aimed at very small systems, such as the Z80.<\/p>\n

What’s different about Cowgol is that it is intended to be self-hosted on these small systems; Cowgol is written in itself, and is able to compile itself. Once one has compiled the compiler for a particular target architecture (for example, the Z80) one could then use that compiler on the target system to compile and run programs for itself.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, there’s no need to start from scratch. The Cowgol on Z80 running CP\/M repository (see the first link of this post) contains the pre-compiled binaries and guidance on using them.<\/p>\n

Cowgol is still under development, but it works. It is a modern language well-suited to (very) small systems, and thanks to this project, getting it up and running on a Z80 running CP\/M is about as easy as such things can get.<\/p>\n

Thanks to [feinfinger] for the tip!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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