Re: What do you use your Apple for?

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Steve Nickolas wrote:
> D Finnigan wrote:
>> barana wrote:
>>> Man! Don't reinvent the wheel!  The foundations have already been
>>> laid! 
>> 
>> I posted a thread to that effect in comp.sys.apple2.programmer.
>> 
>> People are probably tired of my talk by now. They want to see some
> results.
>>
> 
> Well, I've been working on something myself, but it's of a much simpler
> nature, and stuck atm...
> 

I'm taking a break on assembly language at the moment in favor of K&R C. I
found a true-blue 1st edition 1978 K&R C manual in the library the other
day, and I'm reading it in the evenings when I get home. I want to use
either cc65 or Aztec C.

The funny thing is, you say that your project is simpler, but after reading
about Xinu and now early research Unix editions, they really aren't that
complex. It's just when you try to compare with what we have today, then you
assume that a system for the Apple would be super-intricate. Just knowing
how the system is designed takes away a lot of the "mystique" about the
whole thing.

I've already got a data design for the process table as well as file
descriptor table in mind. Really what I think will be trickiest is operating
the soft-switches to switch in just the right bank(s) of RAM.