To:    mford@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu  (Mark)
       s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Romulis)

Title: ASTERIX is just about almost any day real-soon-now finished


Hi again,,, Progress with my holiday project has been slow recently, but now
   I've only got to code the 'unalias' routine and I'll be finished
   with the coding of the shell. Then I go onto Part4 -- Writing up the
   docs -- Not looking forward to it (I hate writing, espech when I have
   to explain everything, like in a Physics reports).

Since the last report I've just developed the shell (MV, ALIAS, Flags, improved
   line preprocessor, fixed up file redirection, blah), wrote a 'game'
   (Wireworld), included a printer as a device, plus a few other things,
   bit I've forgotten what they are (!)

In reply to one of Mark's ideas, I've been thinking of including a simple text
   processor 'NR' (something like NROFF) so to get around the 40/80
   columns dispute.

The memory from $E000-$FFFF is allocated as program workspace, but it shouldn't
   be a problem to fit a few 'liberated' Music routines in there and run
   them with the IRQ. I might try IK+ dis'arvo. (ASTERIX - a true
   polyphonic operating system?)

Decided on the name. ASTERIX now stands for:
       ASpiring
       To
       bE a
       Rationalised
       unIX

Ciao!
