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I had some comments I thought to post on FaceBook , but then decided it's time to just Blog directly to my mailing list now that my tools are sufficient .  So , this is the first , following on Saturday's 0th Zoom .

So please , as it says above , let me know if you want to be removed . On the other hand , don't be shy about giving it a 👍 or contributing some much needed $$ . While 1 on 1 , the Zoom interaction is perhaps the best yet at showing the everyday simplicity of CoSy while also showing its unmatched openness right down to the chip ( x86 ) code . While decades in conception , CoSy is a new generation of computing language and environment .

Perhaps the best demo yet.

I plan to start holding Zooms each Saturday . RSVP for the sign-on details for Sat.Jul,20200718.1000-6 .

Annual CoSy MidSummer Mountain Mela
is in a few weeks :
Sat.Aug,20200808.1500 til ...

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or want to make it here for an afternoon in the mountains , stop on by
28124 Highway 67 / Woodland Park , Colorado / 80863

Now to what prompted this 0th Blog :

On 2020-07-12 23:27, David L Jaffe wrote  ( on the SV-FIG ml : The Inside Story of Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/the-inside-story-of-texas-instruments- biggest-blunder-the-tms9900-microprocessor To which I replied : All of us , particularly in the APL world , knew the 68K with its 24 bit address space was the choice at the time . It was the first chip capable of migrating mainframe time-sharing IPSA APL systems down to departmental computers . I downloaded Rochester Gas & Electric's corporate rate case ( model ) to Philip Van Cleave's APL68000 on a Wicat in ~ `82 `83 . These were cabinet sized .  It was on a trip down to Manhattan to check out the machines , that I happened to show the Hello World demo which I still use to Vidal Sassoon who also was there checking them out . Shortly there after I got my first ` desktop , the Sage 68K with a half meg of RAM . Still using the HDS APL terminal which had 8 screens of internal memory and was my connection to the Xerox and other mainframes and time sharing ( cloud ) thru a 2400 baud modem . There were a score of competing 68K startups . And when InferiorButMarketable came out with their 8088 PC we generally dismissed it -- failing to recognize the importance of the direct screen-processor mapping IBM had copied from the Apples , as opposed to the RS-232 serial link . But all of us wiser 68Kers , were just waiting for the Apple Macintosh to storm in and reclaim the market with a sensible processor . The Lisa , of which I only ever saw one in use by a guy down by Wall St , was priced out of the market . But then Jobs came out with his disaster of a Mac abandoning the brilliance of the Apple II . He had no conception of the memory requirements of bigger business problems and soldered in  I think a max of 256k . He had a processor capable of linearly addressing |  2. 24. 2_f ^f |>| 16777216. |  bytes , and crippled it . And provided no means for expansion . And thus Apple lost that battle , and Jobs eventually his job -- for quite a while . And all of us had to learn to live with the 8088 PC -- which Phelps Gates remarkably managed to make a usable APL on for STSC , nee , ScientificTimeSharingCorporation .

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Reading the article in more detail , there is a discussion of Big-Endian versus Little-Endian byte layout .
It happens I had been thinking about that while trying to get Helmar Wodke's sort vocabulary tamed for CoSy and extended to various types , in particular , lists of strings .  I very rarely get down to the x86 level , but a little searching I found Intel had a byte swap instructionspecifically to switch between the two formats .
So I implemented it .

Looking for where I mentioned ` endi in my text log as demoed in Saturday's Zoom , found when I worked on it .  In the augmented notes below you can see what it does . The thought is that swapping the ends , character  cells ( words , 32 bit ) are in numerical order and thus can be sorted at the cell level rather than the character by character byte level .