10 Jun
2010
10 Jun
'10
5:44 p.m.
Ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
What are the programs needed to program under OS/8 in
assembler
using OS/8 as I/O for the assembler? What is the OS/8 handbook
that lists the OS/8 system calls for OS/8 use from assembler.
IS IT ONLINE as pdf?
Planing to write a few new programs for the 8, because we have the
technology.
Ben.
Programs needed? PAL8 is the standard assembler, and ABSLDR is the
normal linker/loader.
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.
Johnny
10 Jun
10 Jun
8:09 p.m.
Johnny Billquist wrote:
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.
Ben.
11 Jun
11 Jun
4:01 a.m.
At 11:09 PM 6/10/2010, Ben wrote:
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.
Yes, you can do everything with paper tape. My first DEC system was a
PDP-5 with paper tape only.
You read the editor into memory off paper tape, read your source off
tape then punched a new version.
Then you loaded the assembler off paper tape, punched a bin paper tape,
etc... very painful.
Under OS/8 it's a lot easier and more convenient. You can use the line
editor or TECO. With a VT-52 emulating terminal, VTEDIT is a very
friendly editor. (However, I'm TECO-biased. I created the VAX TECO
editor for VMS.)
If your terminal emulator can't do VT-52, I do have a copy of OS/8 TECO
and VTEDIT that works with ANSI terminals. Getting it onto your PDP-8
should be pretty easy if you've got Kermit running. (I use PUTR to move
things on and off my SIMH drives.)
-Rick
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