DEC VT05 with OS/8 -- basic system rebuild?

[bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca]

Charles H Dickman wrote:

> I suspect that it is impossible to rebuild OS/8 today. I would be 
> surprised if OS/8 was actually maintained on a PDP-8. All of the 
> diagnostic listing, for example, were generated using PAL10 on a PDP-10.

Strange... we still have 8's around but no 10's. Well we have a few
but I don't think PDP8 code lurks there.

> I have tried to find a coherent set of binaries and this can be 
> difficult too. SET is especially problematical because it requires 
> intimate knowledge of the handler it is going to patch. I have the 
> opinion that the the suggestions about using SET to change things in the 
> KL8-E hander are a red herring, they were probably never added to SET.

I can under stand a PDP8 not having it's own development system,
but compared to todays software, the PDP-10 software for the 8
must fit on a CD-rom, source and all.

> -chuck
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