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# $Source$
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# $State$
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# $Revision$
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The pc86 platform
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pc86 is an i86-based BSP that produces bootable floppy disk images that can
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be run on most PCs. It is intended to be quick and dirty rather than actually
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useful, although it may come in handy for hardware test purposes, boot
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loaders, and the like.
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The code runs in TINY mode, where CS, DS and SS all share the same segment.
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This means that there's not very much memory available. It would be very easy
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to change it to run in SMALL mode, where CS occupies one segment and DS and SS
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another, which would give 64kB for nearly all programs; I just haven't done it.
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This port uses a syscall interface, which means you get *all* of the ACK's
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builtin libc with no shortcuts. File descriptors 0, 1 and 2 represent the
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console. All reads block. There's enough TTY emulation to allow \n conversion
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(set RAW to turn off) and local echo (unset ECHO to turn off); this is needed
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to make Basic work.
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Language support
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Tested with C (both), Basic, Pascal, Occam, Modula-2.
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Basic works, but because Basic programs require access to a data file to work,
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and pc86 doesn't (of course) have a file system, programs won't start unless
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you hack the compiler not to try and open it.
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Example command line
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ack -mpc86 -O -ansi -o pc86.img test.c
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The file pc86.img can then be copied onto a floppy and booted, or run via qemu
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or somesuch emulator.
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David Given
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dg@cowlark.com
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