10 Jun
2010
10 Jun
'10
8:09 p.m.
Johnny Billquist wrote:
The system calls, information about file system stuff,
and all other
information you need to write programs in assembler is documented in the
OS/8 SOFTWARE SUPPORT MANUAL
Don't know if it's available online, but I would suspect so.
It is online, and as scanned text file. It printed out rather
clean on the laser with only a few blank pages.
Johnny
The important thing is got windows ( hyper-term ) and the
SBC6120 with k12mit ( Kermit ) talking to each other today.
The PDP 8 was promoted as paper tape system, and it is
harder to think of communicating with it remotely.
I still will do most of my editing in DOS box, since the line
editor is pain to use with the PDP 8.
Ben.