14 Sep
2004
14 Sep
'04
7:36 p.m.
On Sep 14, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
Might as well just run linux. It has lots of good languages, and plays
nicely with terminals and
telnet sessions. It's not very legacy tho.
>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Handy <kth(a)srv.net> writes:
Kevin> It would be better to just create a compiler for the languages
Kevin> like basic-plus than trying to rewrite the entire OS. It would
Kevin> allow you to use the old programs on new systems. Make a BP2
Kevin> front-end for GCC, and you can natively run RSTS/E programs on
Kevin> your Linux system.
Yes, once you have implemented a sys(char *) function that knows all
the RSTS sys calls... which is a substantial job. And the libc
additions to emulate the various I/O modifiers, especially for
terminal I/O where they are both strange and important...
paul