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Author SHA1 Message Date
Virgil Dupras
3581beace0 rc2014: de-buffer MC6850 and SIO drivers
The buffer's implementation wasn't buying us much in exchange for its
complexity. A modern machine was still too fast for it (copy/pasting
text from a modern machine would send bytes too fast for the RC2014)
and in the (theoretical so far) case of COS-to-COS communication, the
buffer didn't help in cases where the baud rate was faster than the
processing of each byte received (for example, if the byte was written
directly to EEPROM).

I'm scrapping it and, instead, use the RTS flag to signal the other
side when we're ready to receive a new byte.

Also, implement driver for channel B in SIO. I will need it to talk
to my TRS-80 4P.
2020-12-29 21:36:19 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
7dae33ce36 rc2014: add SIO xcomp unit 2020-12-12 10:08:16 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
80d1b59050 Add words |M and |L
Splitting a word into MSB/LSB pairs happens often and is worth, I
think, native words. Also, I'm going to need it in the upcoming
commits.
2020-12-07 20:11:49 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
95ab1ad588 Transform "blk/" folders into "blk.fs" text files
Working in "blk/" folder from a modern system is harder than it
should be. Moving blocks around is a bit awkward, grepping is a
bit less convenient than it could be, git blame has troubles
following, etc.

In this commit, we modify blkpack and blkunpack to work with single
text files with blocks being separated by a special markup.

I think this will make the code significantly more convenient to
work into.
2020-11-14 18:34:15 -05:00
Virgil Dupras
7001446212 Complete overhaul of recipes
Recipes contain bits and pieces of hardware-related knowledge, but
these bits feel sparse. I've been wanting to consolidate hardware-
related documentation for a while, but always fell at odds with the
recipes organisation.

We don't have recipes anymore, just a /doc/hw section that contains
hardware-related documentation which often translate to precise
instructions to run Collapse OS on a specific machine.

With this new organisation, I hope to end up with a better, more
solid documentation.
2020-10-30 20:39:39 -04:00