13 May
2011
13 May
'11
1:42 p.m.
At 12:00 -0500 5/13/11, Andrew wrote:
There was a stnad-alone FIG forth too I think. It was bootable RX01 disk
and basically used the 'screen' model for loading/saving data (8
contiguous sectors were a 1K screen).
I think I have the RT11 version of Fig Forth soemwhere, and it's pretty
obvious how to make it the stnadalone version. The only problem is doing
it, and writign the progrma fo the boot sector, etc.
-tony
The only remaining practical options IMO are to
either write/port a
free/open source operating system to PDP-11 (an enormous task)
fig-FORTH? I'm pretty sure there was at least one (buggy?) version
for PDP-11; I think maybe it ran on top of RSX-11M because I remember
trying to type it in on UTCSR's RSX-11M system. I would expect
drivers might be relatively easy to write in FORTH, but I don't know
what other OS services might pose a challenge.