Pascal System

From: Mike Allison <mallison_at_konnections.com>
Date: Thu Feb 26 07:24:59 1998

This is pretty much what I got out of everything I've looked at. There
were no hooks for adding storage. I just wasn't sure if there was a
common work around for this problem. (As if anything about UCSD is
common...)

-Mike

Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> <The UCSD p system used a nonstandard disk format technique, the floppy
> <was formatted in "blocks" and you booted the systeem off the a drive.
> <It wasn't just a language, but an entire operating system/environment.
> <I still have a copy of it around here somewhere from a class I took in
> <the early 80's.
>
> This was largely true for the z80based and PDP-11 based versions as well.
> I still have the P-system for horizon single density.
>
> The language addressed "units" as devices. The standard ones:
>
> unit volume
> --------------
> 1 console:
> 2 systerm:
> 3 graphic:
> 4 <volume name> system disk
> 5 <volume name> alternate disk
> 6 printer
> 8 REMOTE: system peripherals
> 9-12 <VOLUME NAME> ADDITIONAL DRIVES
>
> Now if the code for the system interface didn't go beyond 2 floppy
> devices your cooked as that was a p-system hard coded thing.
>
> Allison
Received on Thu Feb 26 1998 - 07:24:59 GMT