[TUHS] B Source Code
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sat Sep 16 01:21:02 AEST 2017
> From: Dave Horsfall
> Did anyone actually use the WCS?
Well, the uassembler was a product for a while, so they must have..
> I had visions of implementing CSAV and CRET on our -60, but never did
> get around to it.
I recently had the idea of programming them into an M792 ROM card (100nsec
access time); user programs couldn't have used it without burning a segment
(to map in the appropriate part of the I/O space), but it might have sped up
the kernel some (and it would have been trivial to add, once the card was
programmed - with a soldering iron - BTDT, BITD :-).
Haven't gotten to it yet - still looking for an M792 (I don't want to trash
any of my pre-programmed M792-xx's :-).
> From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
> A big issue, again IIRC, was the microcode compiler/tools for the WSC
> ran on RSX so it meant UNIX was not running, which was not popular.
Why not just write a Unix-native one? They aren't that much work - I created a
uassembler overnight (literally!) for the QSIC project Dave Bridgham and I
have been working on.
It's been improved a lot since the first version (e.g. the entire uengine
description is now read in from a config file, instead of being compiled in),
but that first version did work fine...
Or was the output format not documented?
Noel
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