worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (02/14/91)
X-Name: Larry Wall Yep. Did you ever try writing a run-time system with no documentation? That was fun. Disassembling the operating system helped, a little. We didn't start playing with that sort of thing until we got a copy of a set of bootleg notes that were circulating. They were the only known external documentation of the kernel calls at the time. A friend of mine did try to disassemble the RT-11 RTS, though. Ugh. "Who stomped on my FIRQB?!!??!!" Probably "parse CCL"! Dale Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com -- What experience and history teaches us is this - that people and governments have never learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it. -- George Hegel
jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (02/15/91)
> X-Name: Larry Wall > > Yep. Did you ever try writing a run-time system with no documentation? > That was fun. Disassembling the operating system helped, a little. At the time I tried to write a RTS, the Oregon Pascal compiler had the option to compile and link a program into a stand-alone run-time system. Actually I never got that far. Instead of writing the RTS in Pascal on RSTS, I switched to C and Unix. Not a bad move, I think. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62911/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------