29 Sep
2010
29 Sep
'10
11:13 a.m.
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Warren Toomey wrote:
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
Specific to, I'm guessing, the banking hardware of the Laser 3000/Dick
Smith Cat? (I saw a disk image on Asimov with your name on it that
mentioned the Cat. I've used a Laser 128, but never a 3000 which is
apparently a bit more different from a real ][.)
It might be made to work on a real ][ with some heavy wizardry. I think I
saw someone on comp.sys.apple2 talking about doing that a few months back.
Running some sort of *x on an Apple ][ would be interesting, seeing as
it's been done on the C64. I actually own an Apple //e.
-uso.