Date   : Sun, 04 Feb 2001 15:03:31 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: second processor pictures

John Simpson <Simpson.J@...> wrote:
> Re: running Archimedes programs on the ARM eval kit:
> 
> >   2) OS and SWIs - While I suspect the handful of minimal swis are the
> > same I wouldn't be so sure about the rest of them.
> 
> I think the above would be very different since Arthur (the Archimedes OS)
> was finished very late and even then was incomplete and bug-ridden. As a
> result it seems likely that the ARM Evaluation OS would have been very
> sketchy indeed.
 
>From the source code it looks like Brazil certainly had quite a few of the
'fundamental' OS swis - the low ones, RdCh, WrCh, the fileswitch calls;
and SWI &100+x for WRCH x, as well as a few 'helping hand' swis in the
&40100 range.
 
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