Re: IBM PC-DOS 2.10 explorations

2020-10-04 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
On 10/3/20 4:07 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Sat, 3 Oct 2020, Will Senn via cctalk wrote: 2. Most of the Assembly examples use DOS interrupt 21 for output. Is this typical of assembly programs of the time, or did folks use other methods? For simple stuff, Int21H works and is portable

Re: IBM PC-DOS 2.10 explorations

2020-10-04 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
turday, October 3, 2020 12:44:26 PM To: Will Senn via cctalk Subject: Re: IBM PC-DOS 2.10 explorations On 10/3/20 8:38 AM, Will Senn via cctalk wrote: Some questions I have related to the exploration: 1. I'm curious if there are other folks out there doing similar stuff? 2. Most of the Assembly ex

Re: IBM PC-DOS 2.10 explorations

2020-10-04 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
On 10/3/20 11:44 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 10/3/20 8:38 AM, Will Senn via cctalk wrote: Some questions I have related to the exploration: 1. I'm curious if there are other folks out there doing similar stuff? 2. Most of the Assembly examples use DOS interrupt 21 for output

Re: IBM PC-DOS 2.10 explorations

2020-10-04 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
gt; for iOS *From:* cctalk on behalf of Will Senn via cctalk *Sent:* Sunday, October 4, 2020 10:52:49 AM *To:* Fred Cisin ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts *Subject:* Re: IBM PC-DOS 2.10 explorations On 10/3/20 4:07 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2

Re: IBM PC-DOS 2.10 explorations

2020-10-04 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 4, 2020, at 1:07 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > >> On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Will Senn wrote: >> I am using a Thinkpad T430 w/DOS 6.22. If I can figure out how to get 3.31 >> on there, I'll give it a shot. I bought a Floppy-USB connector for my old >> 1.44

IBM PC-DOS 2.10 explorations

2020-10-03 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
All, I've been delving into ancient IBM PC-DOS... 1.0, 2.0 and have landed on 2.10 as the experience I'm going to hang out with for a while. It's stable in QEMU and 86Box and I am able to run MASM 1.0, 2.0 and Pascal 1.0 and 2.0. 86Box is more true to old-school boxes, but qemu runs on my

Re: Location of ARPANET Protocol Handbook or its successor, online

2020-07-03 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
On 7/3/20 9:21 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: It contains a whole raft of individual documents, most of them RFCs, and some "NIC"s - similar documents available through the NIC, but generally only in hardcopy form (like the earliest RFCs). Many of the most important non-RFC ones are

Re: Location of ARPANET Protocol Handbook or its successor, online

2020-07-03 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
On 7/3/20 7:19 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > I will create a page which lists the contents of the APH .. I'll email > the list with the URL once I get it up. OK, it's at: http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/arpaprot.html I'll link to it from all the usual places (e.g.

Re: Location of ARPANET Protocol Handbook or its successor, online

2020-07-02 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
On 7/2/20 9:38 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk wrote: On Jul 2, 2020, at 18:55, s shumaker via cctalk wrote: NTRL has 3 published versions listed with two available as pdf downloads; go here and search on the author name https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/ Steve Searching on author Feinler

Re: Location of ARPANET Protocol Handbook or its successor, online

2020-07-02 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
and search on the author name https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/  Steve On 7/2/2020 4:57 PM, Will Senn via cctalk wrote: Hi, If this is off-topic, my apologies, but I know some of y'all were there (Noel), so I'm hoping it's close enough to on-topic to garner a successful response. I'm looking

Location of ARPANET Protocol Handbook or its successor, online

2020-07-02 Thread Will Senn via cctalk
Hi, If this is off-topic, my apologies, but I know some of y'all were there (Noel), so I'm hoping it's close enough to on-topic to garner a successful response. I'm looking for the ARPANET Protocol Handbook by Feinler, E. and Postel, J., published by SRI back in the day (revised edition