In <1321222276.64681.yahoomail...@web161406.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, on
11/13/2011
at 02:11 PM, Ed Gould <ps2...@yahoo.com> said:
>That was a little bit before my time. Is there a possibility you
>could give a short paragraph or so on a stage 1 or (whatever it was
>called became a system), please?
There are three different sets of tapes involved here:
1. A dump of a starter system with a documented set of
predefined I/O addresses. It was intended only for doing
the initial sysgen.
2. The install tape, containing a dump of the distribution
library (DLIB) volume. Mostly load module libraries, with
several f macro libraries.
3. Optional source tape, containing source code for programs
shipped as load modules. Generally the first file on set of
source tapes would be a private macro library.
The sysgen manual described calling the macros for stage 1. You
specified, e.g., the control program scheduler, optional utilities and
I/O configuration, then assembled[1] using the macro definitions in
SYS1.AGENLIB. The output was a stage 2 jobstream, which copied
libraries from DLIB to target, assembled modules using SYS1.AMACLIB
and SYS1.AMODGEN, link edited modules and ran a few miscellaneous
utilities.
[1] The stage 1 macros didn't generate any actual code, just
PUNCH statements.
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