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@ -128,3 +128,18 @@ Essentially, it all works now except a few minor glitches. We now need
to get as up and running fully, get ed rescanned and working. Eventually
it would be good to have a working roff; but someone is going to have
to write it from scratch.
## wkt Thu Mar 24 17:53:55 AEST 2016
The B compiler works and can compile itself, thanks to the hard work
done by Robert Swierczek, so it's now on the filesystem image; there's
an example B program in dmr's home directory.
Phil has written a proper RIM bootstrap for the system with the kernel
loaded onto physical track 180 (logical 80). The mkfs7 tools has been
altered to place the kernel there, so now we can boot from a paper tape that
is only 237 bytes (23.7 inches) long instead of 14133 bytes (1413 inches)
long :-) That will help when we get to the LCM machine.
We have a new scan from Norman Wilson, and some transcription errors in
ed have been fixed. ed now assembles and runs, but it isn't working
perfectly yet.