From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:34:51 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] 6502 and swtch, was Re: 2.11BSD cross compiler In-Reply-To: <20100929035534.GE12919@bitmover.com> References: <20100929005148.GA8032@bitmover.com> <20100929023819.GA12919@bitmover.com> <20100929035534.GE12919@bitmover.com> Message-ID: <20100929043451.GA2673@minnie.tuhs.org> > 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