STOIC HAS THE CAPABILITIES OF A COMPILER, EDITOR, ASSEMBLER,
DEBUGGER, LOADER AND OPERATING SYSTEM. IT APPEARS TO BE
CONCEPTUALLY SIMILAR TO FORTH IN THE USE OF AN EXTENSIBLE
VOCABULARY OF WORDS, WITH THE ABILITY TO "FORGET" DEFINITIONS
AND RE-DEFINE OR CREATE NEW WORDS IN TERMS OF PREVIOUSLY LEARNED
WORDS.
THE FIRST TWO MODULES, THE BOOTSTRAP AND KERNEL, WERE WRITTEN
IN ASSEMBLER MNEMONICS. THEREAFTER THE MODULES WERE WRITTEN IN
STOIC WORDS.
THIS PACKAGE IS A STAND-ALONE SYSTEM AND DOES NOT REQUIRE A
RESIDENT FDOS, SUCH AS CP/M OR ISIS.
THE MATERIAL HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY RE-ARRANGED AND REVISED SINCE
THE CATALOGS WERE PUBLISHED. IN PARTICULAR THE KERNEL NOW INCORPORATES
WORD DEFINITIONS WHICH PERMIT DIRECT OPERATION THROUGH CP/M.
STOICCPM.DOC EXPLAINS THE PROCEDURE FOR BRINGING THE SYSTEM UP. IT
WAS NECESSARY TO LEAVE CERTAIN FILES OFF BECAUSE OF LACK OF SPACE,
AND THESE CAN BE OBTAINED AS VOLUME 23B. THE OVERFLOW VOLUMES WILL
ALSO BE ADDED TO A FUTURE REGULAR VOLUME, AND WERE SELECTED AS THE
LEAST NECESSARY FOR A CP/M USER.
FILES OF TYPE .STC ARE WRITTEN IN STOIC AND CAN BE LOADED AS DESCRIBED
IN THE VOLUME23.DOC
NUMBER SIZE NAME COMMENTS
CATALOG.23 CONTENTS OF CP/M GROUP VOL 23
VOLUME23.DOC COMMENTS ON THIS VOLUME, ADDITIONAL
TO STOICCPM.DOC
STOICCPM.DOC COMMENTS ON CP/M STOIC. READ TOGETHER
WITH THE VOLUME23.DOC
23A.1 13K ASSEMBL.DOC STOIC 8080 ASSEMBLER
23A.2 8K DICT.DOC STOIC DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS
23A.3 8K EDIT.DOC STOIC DISPLAY EDITOR DOC
23A.4 9K FILES.DOC STOIC FILE SYSTEM DOC
23A.5 5K FLOATPNT.DOC FLOATING POINT DOC
23A.6 2K INTRRUPT.DOC INTERRUPT HANDLER DOC
23A.7 38K KERNEL.ASM STOIC KERNEL WITH CP/M WORDS IN 8080
ASSEMBLER
23A.8 24K KERNEL.DOC STOIC KERNEL DOC
23A.9 46K STOIC.DOC OVERVIEW OF STOIC CONCEPTS AND STRUCTURE
23A.10 23K STOICBAS.STC BASIC DEFINTIONS
23A.11 4K STOICD/A.STC GRAPHICS FOR D/A HARDWARE
23A.12 9K STOICEDT.STC EDITOR
23A.13 3K STOICFFT.STC FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM
23A.14 8K STOICFLE.STC FILE SYSTEM
23A.15 11K STOICFLT.STC FLOATING POINT PACKAGE
23A.16 5K STOICINT.STC 4 BYTE INTEGER ADDITION
23A.17 3K STOICITP.STC INTERRUPT PACKAGE
23A.18 3K STOICMIS.STC MISCELLANEOUS WORDS
23A.19 2K STOICSIN.STC INTEGER SINE AND COSINE
23A.20 2K STOICSRT.STC SORT ROUTINE
OVERFLOW AVAILABLE AS VOLUME 23B. THIS MATERIAL IS NOT ESSENTIAL
FOR CP/M USE, AND WILL BE AVAILABLE ON A REGULAR VOLUME AT SOME
FUTURE DATE.
23B.1 1K BOOT.ASM STOIC BOOTSTRAP IN 8080 ASSEMBLER
23B.2 2K BOOT.DOC BOOT DOC
23B.3 6K LOAD.DOC INFORMATION ON LOADING STOIC AS A
STAND-ALONE SYSTEM
23B.4 13K STOIC.COM CP/M STOIC CONSTRUCTED AS DESCRIBED
IN VOLUME23.DOC
BECAUSE OF SPACE LIMITS, THE FILE STOIC.COM WAS NOT PLACED ON
THIS DISKETTE, AS SUGGESTED IN STOICCPM.DOC. ALSO THE BOOTSTRAP
AND DOCUMENTATION ON THE BOOT AND SYSTEM LOADING WERE OMITTED. THEY
CAN BE OBTAINED A VOLUME 23B, BUT IN ANY EVENT WILL APPEAR AS PART
OF A REGULARLY SCHEDULED FUTURE RELEASE.
TO CONSTRUCT THE STOIC.COM, IT IS NECESSARY TO ASSEMBLE THE KERNEL
AND THEN HAVE IT LOAD THE BASIC DEFINITIONS. AS EXPLAINED BELOW, THE
LOADING OF STOICBAS SHOULD BE PERFORMED FROM DRIVE A
MACHINE YOU
A> ASM KERNEL.AAZ
CP/M ASSEMBLER - VER 1.0
1A98
015H USE FACTOR
END OF ASSEMBLEY
A>
LOAD KERNEL
SOURCE IS DISK
FIRST ADDRESS 0100
LAST ADDRESS 18BD
BYTES READ 0EB6
RECORDS WRITTEN 30
A>
KERNEL
0>
'STOICBAS CPMLD
0>
SZSTOIC
STOIC IS 50 DECIMAL PAGES LONG
RETCPM
A>
SAVE 50 STOIC.COM
A>
NOTE THAT THE VALUE OF THE WORD "UNIT" IS DEFAULTED TO 0 IN
THE KERNEL. THIS DEFINES THE DISK DRIVE FOR LOADING. THE WORD
TO CHANGE THE DEFINITION IS "!" (THE "'S ARE NOT INCLUDED), WHICH
IS DEFINED IN STOICBAS. TO CHANGE THE VALUE TYPE
