On 2016-10-22 20:21, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
I know some of the code is already there but I need comments since I am
not an expert or even a real advanced programmer in assembly. Also, the
beauty of running a simulator is that hardware resources are not as much
of a problem so I more to fill in the gaps for the stuff I am unsure of.
My personal assembly "bible " covers some systems programming but not
all. I will have to share the title of the book when I am near it. It is
available on Amazon. What my plans are is to make a simple OS with a
dual command set using both the RT-11 command line interface and RSX
style DCL. Just something fun to play with....
The command line interface is really a very simple and small part of it
all. First you need to have the actual kernel, which manage memory and
devices. You need device drivers. And you need an API to access it all.
The you need some CUSPs.
The command line interface is really not even properly a part of the kernel.
Johnny
On Oct 22, 2016 11:58 AM, "Johnny Billquist" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 2016-10-22 16:44, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
I know that RT-11 is under license from Mentec but is there a
way to get
the sources for it? I would like preferably v5.3. I have an
idea for
project to teach my self rudimentary OS design and I would like
to use
RT-11 as an example since PDP-11 assembly is the only assembly I
know
and I am already comfortable with RT-11.
Unless I'm confused, RT-11 already comes with some sources, but they
are stripped of comments.
Also, as an OS, it is rather rudimentary. And the code is sometimes
not that easy to follow, since they have used a lot of tricks to
squeeze the most functionality with the minimal amount of memory use.
Johnny
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