Index of /pub/pdp8/tss8

      Name                    Last modified       Size  Description


[DIR] Parent Directory        21-Sep-2003 10:52      -  
[TXT] blank.pal               09-Jun-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] char.asc                25-Feb-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] delete.pal              24-Feb-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] direct.pal              28-Jun-1984 00:00     6k  
[TXT] dtcopy.pal              09-Mar-1984 00:00     4k  
[TXT] dtdump.pal              14-Jun-1984 00:00     2k  
[TXT] dttest.pal              26-Jun-1984 00:00     7k  
[TXT] dttype.pal              07-Mar-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] edit.asc                25-Feb-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] edit52.pal              07-Aug-1984 00:00    28k  
[TXT] extens.asc              11-Feb-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] forth.pal               20-Aug-1984 00:00    25k  
[TXT] memuse.pal              10-Jun-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] prdec.pal               11-Jun-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] proct.pal               25-Feb-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] pttype.pal              10-Apr-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] readkb.pal              25-Feb-1984 00:00     2k  
[TXT] rewind.pal              23-Jun-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] rim.pal                 10-Apr-1984 00:00     1k  
[   ] sid.dsk                 22-May-2000 12:46   512k  
[DIR] system/                 11-Jul-2001 13:57      -  
[TXT] ttyiot.asc              15-Feb-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] type.pal                25-Feb-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] type1.pal               07-Mar-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] typrim.pal              11-Apr-1984 00:00     1k  
[TXT] wowman.pal              26-Jun-1984 00:00     1k  

This directory contains programs for the TSS/8.24 operating system, all written
using the PAL/D assembler.  Not all of the programs were ever finished, my
RS08 disk stopped working in mid 1984 so these files came from a tape backup.

Partial list:

dt*.pal		DECtape related programs.  Copy, compare, test.

pt*.pal		Paper tape programs.

edit52.pal	Full-screen editor for the VT52.  Definitely unfinished, but
		it was a pretty good start.  I was given a little money for
		high school graduation in June '84 so I headed straight down
		to Eli Heffron's and plunked it down on a VT52, which was a
		wonderful step up from the ASR33s and flakey LA30P I'd been
		using, but EDIT.SAV assumes that terminals won't echo tabs
		so it echos spaces after the tab has already echoed, which
		made it very hard to see what I was doing.  Also EDIT.SAV
		ignores lower-case input (it must think that it's line noise?).
		So obviously I needed a new editor!  But as always I got
		side-tracked, it puts a lot more effort into dealing with
		TSS/8's bizarre filename extension kludge (the extension is
		encoded in 5 unused bits of the protection code), than with
		actual file I/O.

forth.pal	Partial FORTH system.  I got a bit carried away with the
		TTY input editing and focused on that instead of finishing
		the dictionary, typical...  But the basic pieces did work.
		I later converted this program to run stand-alone and build
		using the PALX.SAV cross-assembler I wrote for RT-11, since
		at that point I had the bare 8/E CPU box in my dorm room,
		attached to a PDT-11/150 through a serial line.

sid.dsk		Snapshot of the (single) RS08 disk on my TSS/8.24 system
		(a PDP-8/E named Sid, for System Is Down).

system/		Subdirectory contains the source code to the TSS/8 monitor
		itself, typed in from a listing in 1984 and 1987.

John Wilson <wilson@dbit.com>, 23-May-2000.