[COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Nov 11 15:15:58 AEST 2020


On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> Was SUPERZAP source or object related?  I thought the latter, but I've 
> never come close to it.

Binary, for things for which there was no source (like SPITBOL).  To edit 
the source, you used a keypunch :-)

Which reminds me; our SPITBOL was just a demo program, until I nobbled it; 
the "real" one (no time bomb) cost many $$$ which we couldn't afford.

-- Dave, a bored CompSci student at the time


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