Date : Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:22:37 +0100
From : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: ARM text editor
2008/10/20 Phil Blundell <philb@...>:
>
> Acorn used to supply an editor called Twin which, I think, ran on their
> ARM1 coprocessor. It uses the standard Acorn SWIs for I/O but I think
> it only depends on about half a dozen of them for correct operation. If
> I remember right the screen output is all done with BBC-compatible VDU
> codes so you shouldn't have any trouble making it work in your
> environment.
>
I used to use Twin a lot ... it was very nice, being able to cut and
paste between two different edit buffers (hence the name.)
If it works, or could be made to work, on Sprow's co-pro, it would be
excellent, and might get me back coding again! :)