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From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] 6502 and swtch, was Re: 2.11BSD cross compiler
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:34:51 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100929043451.GA2673@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100929035534.GE12919@bitmover.com>

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:17:33AM +0200, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > Dunno, the only instruction set I really grok is 65C02, which is by your  
> > standards probably little more than a toy.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 08:55:34PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Anyhoo, the 6502 is a fine little processor and knowing how to make it
> sing is a useful skill.

Argh, I wasn't going to post back but I can't resist. Back in the 80's I
rewrote Xinu from C into 6502 assembly, and got very primitive multitasking
working on the Apple ][. I guess that counts as writing swtch :-)

ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/pub/apple2/apple2xinu.tar.gz

Cheers,
	Warren



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-29  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28  5:54 [TUHS] " Nick Downing
2010-09-29  0:24 ` Tim Newsham
2010-09-29  0:51   ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29  2:14     ` John Cowan
2010-09-29  2:38       ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29  2:59         ` John Cowan
2010-09-29  3:44           ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-30  4:22           ` [TUHS] PDP-8 (was: 2.11BSD cross compiler) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-09-30  4:53             ` John Cowan
2010-09-30 13:50             ` Larry McVoy
2010-10-02  3:46               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-10-02 21:03                 ` Larry McVoy
2010-10-02 21:39                   ` [TUHS] PDP-8 M. Warner Losh
2010-10-02 10:06               ` [TUHS] PDP-8 (was: 2.11BSD cross compiler) Wolfgang Helbig
2010-09-29  3:14         ` [TUHS] 2.11BSD cross compiler M. Warner Losh
2010-09-29  3:17         ` Steve Nickolas
2010-09-29  3:55           ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29  4:34             ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2010-09-29  5:13               ` [TUHS] 6502 and swtch, was " Steve Nickolas
2010-09-30 17:49               ` Tim Newsham
2010-09-29 20:54             ` [TUHS] " Peter Jeremy
2010-09-29 21:34               ` Larry McVoy

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