Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!virtech!rickr From: rickr@virtech.uucp (Rick Rodman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: Re: Call for discussion: alt.hack.system Summary: simple monitor, assembler, et al. Message-ID: <1990Mar23.031914.6335@virtech.uucp> Date: 23 Mar 90 03:19:14 GMT References: <1341@carroll1.cc.edu> <865@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <1349@carroll1.cc.edu> <872@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc. Lines: 49 In article <872@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>, grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Gregory Ebert) writes: > For the meantime, we will need to get a VERY simple monitor > up and running, before anything else can be done. I'm new to this system. However, I have a simple ROM monitor, called SRM (simple ROM monitor) which I use on a Compupro CPU-32016. > 3. Find and adopt a P-D assembler for the 32032. I would > greatly appreciate it if someone could help with this. It > would be ideal if we had 'C' source program which would > create ASCII-hex files which I could then dump onto our > PROM burner. The assembler by Bruce Culbertson is very good. It comes with complete source. I use this assembler and another C program to produce PROMs of the above ROM monitor. I have a 32532 designer's kit and a pd-32 also. What I have been doing is using a C compiler (with source), the aforementioned assembler, and other assorted public-domain or "copylefted" C source files, on a PC (cross-development) to write a simple MS-DOS clone operating system (if MS-DOS can be called that) for the NS-32 processor. It's a lot of stuff which has been posted in the past. The monitor's not too big, and it's pretty simple (read bare-bones). By the way, TDS source is available, but it's written in a strange dialect. If you would like, send a couple of 1.2 or 1.44 floppies to me by snail mail with return postage and I will put a C compiler, assembler, monitor, make utility, eprom utility, etc. on it and send it back to you. send to: Rick Rodman, 8329 Ivy Glen Court, Manassas VA 22110. I have looked at the GCC stuff, and it is a shame that these folks are not constrained by any real-world considerations like comments for mere mortals. Alas! I couldn't even compile GCC on a Unix workstation, it's just too darned big and complicated. I still have hopes. > 2. Remember: This project can only survive if YOU contribute. > The 32032 is in my opinion the best thought-out processor ever > made, and we will all have a great time working with it. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I saw it written that IBM's choice of the 8088 for the PC was the most costly decision in human history. How sad. Let me know if I can help you in any way. I have some extra chips, data books... -- Rick Rodman uunet!virtech!rickr (703)734-7261(w) (703)330-9849(h) Cable & Wireless, Tysons Corner VA