11 Jun
2010
11 Jun
'10
7:10 a.m.
Ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
Why use a line editor? There are several full screen editors for OS/8.
Really fast and nice ones.
Johnny
Johnny Billquist wrote:
Saw that later. Good. That means you have everything you need.
> 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.