25 Oct
2022
25 Oct
'22
2 a.m.
Christian! I tried contacting you a few months ago. Apologies, I suspect
some intermediate ISP may be blocking gmail? I've seen this happen with
other contacts.
Alfred Arnold made the changes to Macro AS himself, and he used both yours
and the IBM mnemonics since there were no conflicts.
And now, I think it's time for a "Bad Apple" style demoscene for the 5100
(as one was made for the 5150), before its 50th in 2025. Let's see what
some raw PALM can do.
Quick question, Christian were you aware of the microcode Appendix C in the
original IBM 5100 MIM? I'd assume Yes - but it's something I've always
been curious about, if that appendix had ever helped you at all, or if it
was too lacking in details? That Appendix C got removed for the 5110
(which has the same Processor/Controller). I'd assume you alway had
access to the 5100 manuals, not just the 5110's.
-Steve
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 3:01 AM Christian Corti via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Oct 2022, Steve Lewis wrote:
Wanted to pass along that PALM has been added as
a target to the Macro
Assembler AS. This means writing some assembly stuff for the old IBM
5100/5110/5120 systems.
Assembler available here:
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/as/
Funny, as this is the very assembler that I had added the PALM target
years ago for my simulator ;-)
It would have been nice if you had talked to me before as to have one
single implementation. But as I see, you took the original IBM mnemonics
whereas I have created more readable ones that make more sense :-)
Christian