standalone code for bootstrapping

---In [email protected], <kerravon86@...> wrote :

> I'll try to think of a solution to this problem.

I think it is time to bite the bullet and write
more complex code to handle bootstrapping
standalone code.

The biggest problem is this line:

https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpclib/sapstart.asm#l154

where I have hardcoded the number of
records for a 3390 using the specified
block size of 18452.

This stand-alone code is actually meant
to support applications other than PDOS,
so I think the assumption of 18452
should also be lifted ideally.

Gerhard mentioned doing full track reads.

What would people like to see for a
generic standalone bootstrapper
unrelated to PDOS?

Does anyone want to volunteer to write
the required assembler? I can do the
testing as I have a test environment
available.

BFN. Paul.