Programing PDP-8 assembler - details - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Jun 2010

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