15 Nov
2007
15 Nov
'07
8:02 a.m.
On 15 Nov 2007 at 2:34, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I seem to remember some stuff duing my CP/M days that
actually had a bitmap of
which locations needed to be fixed, though I'm darned if I can remember just
now what that was.
If you put together CP/M from the OEM kit, you used it to make your
customized copy of MOVCPM.
Wasn't JRT the one that got some really bad
reviews in Byte or one of the
other magazines? It was some early Pascal compiler anyhow. I can't say I
ever encountered it or ran across it or talked with anybody who had used it.
I still have my 8" JRT disk. Yes, it was terrible and slow, but what
do you expect from a program that swaps to floppy? They advertised
that you could write programs of any size, not limited by the RAM of
your computer. While it was probably true that you could write
programs much larger than available RAM, the d*mned thing was buggy
enough to be useless.
Curiously, I was using it as part of a validation set of programs to
check out V20/V30 8080 emulation and turned up a big in the V20/V30.
I still have the NEC MicroNote describing the problem. AFAIK, the
bug was never fixed in the V-series uPs--there just wasn't enough
interest. As I recall, the problem was the JRT modularized its own
subroutines and set SP = subroutine entry point before each call to
keep the stack local to each subroutine. It broke the V20/V30 badly.
It was an object less in the fallacy of the "no one would ever want
to do that' approach.
I remember one of the floppies I got with my Osborne
originally was
labeled "UCSD P-System" (or something pretty close to that). I vaguely
recall poking around with it once, but it had nothing at all to do with
CP/M, wasn't compatible with anything else at all, and at that point in
time I couldn't see the use of it. I probably still have it somewhere, and
some docs on it too.
Yup, UCSD P-system was its own operating system as well as the
language support. Not a bad implementation for the time, but a world
unto itself. I think at one point IBM even flogged it for the PC.
Cheers,
Chuck