13 May
2009
13 May
'09
11:41 p.m.
Charles H Dickman wrote:
I suspect that it is impossible to rebuild OS/8 today.
I would be
surprised if OS/8 was actually maintained on a PDP-8. All of the
diagnostic listing, for example, were generated using PAL10 on a PDP-10.
Strange... we still have 8's around but no 10's. Well we have a few
but I don't think PDP8 code lurks there.
I have tried to find a coherent set of binaries and
this can be
difficult too. SET is especially problematical because it requires
intimate knowledge of the handler it is going to patch. I have the
opinion that the the suggestions about using SET to change things in the
KL8-E hander are a red herring, they were probably never added to SET.
I can under stand a PDP8 not having it's own development system,
but compared to todays software, the PDP-10 software for the 8
must fit on a CD-rom, source and all.
-chuck