7 Mar
2005
7 Mar
'05
8:30 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Pete Turnbull wrote:
XM is the eXtended Monitor, which is like FB but in
addition allows the
use of more than 56kB memory (by paging). Device drivers for XM have a
three-letter filename, with the third letter always being 'X'.
So I imagine any device drive with the X at the end is the better one to
use with the XM monitor? Or is it mandatory to use X device drivers in
the XM monitor?
BL is the BaseLine monitor, which is what is on the
distribution media.
It's like SJ, but includes all the devices you're likely to want to
boot from (so you can do a SYSGEN and transfer your customised monitor
to your preferred boot medium) and excludes all the frilly bits you
might want but aren't needed for a SYSGEN.
So this brings up another question: I've noticed that I don't explicitly
need to LOAD device drivers for the devices I want to use when I boot
RT-11. In particular, I don't need to LOAD DD when I want to use the TU58
simulator. Are they found and loaded automatically when the OS boots,
or...?
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