5 Sep
2006
5 Sep
'06
9:58 a.m.
Johnny Billquist wrote:
woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
OS/8 is a very limited OS. Whatever underlying
hardware you use is
irrelevant. It's all a question of what you're emulating, and I would
recommend that your code works on atleast a few different combinations
of hardware.
I leave that comment for DOS. With the PDP-8 you got a lot
for your memory and at least standard TTY I/O. I still grumble
of how badly serial I/O was for the Pee-Cee was and still is ...
see usb drivers.
Johnny