> I dunno this UNIX on a SAM part of this thread smacks of those readers > letters > in format where a READER says that somthing should be done for the SAM and > Bob > then goes on to trash the feasable request as invalid or stupid.... eg HD's, > Archivers, COMMS etc etc... > > Or when I suggested that Interupt driven RS232 is possible on the sam > everyone > I spoke to in the SAM scene said it couldn't be done! Now I've been using it > RELIABLY for over a year daily! ALL my OWN work!
Heheheheh... I know what you mean. When I published how to do it (found out using my own poke-arounds inside the interface) in Your Sinclair, Andy Wright and Simon Goodwin insisted that I was wrong.. Then I told them exactly what to do and they conceded :) Yep, it works. Damn well too -- except when the screen scrolls, it takes *ages* but a 2k ring buffer sorts that out and keeps things flowing nicely at 38400 baud :) > Hmmm has Bob joined this group using Ians FQDN as an alias? *rotfls* > Ian just WHAT do you use (or want to use) your sam for? > > Do you program in machine-code at the lowest level on the sam? Have you seen > and understood unix C source enough to port it to the SAM under any of the > current operating systems? Have you seen the source and understood the > functions&requirments of a minimal UNIX system? > > If no then to at least 2 out of 3 of those last questions then please stop > saying that it can't be done as your not qualified to judge its viability, > sorry. *ouch ouch!* Ian doesn't have a SAM actually, if what I've been told is correct... > To be honest when I do eventually write any multi-tasking operating systems > for MY sam (either unix based or a cp/m+ extension), it'll be for my needs > not > yours and as I've said before I doubt it'll ever be run on anyone elses SAM > mainly because, currently NO other sam can run everything mine can due to > lack > of data-bus buffering, I don't do user manuals and it'll require more > inteligence than the average home-computer user to use it as with any non-gui > unix system! It'd work on my and Martin Rookyard's systems.... but then, we're just obtuse :) > CYL. > Johnathan. Si Cooke
