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AnachronautandClaude Opus 5 3449405b18 Give the system another page of each memory
CosmOS had 1,161 bytes of Program Memory left before the address applications
load at, and Tab completion is not going to fit in that with anything to spare.
So the wall moves up one page: the system keeps below 0x4FFF and 0x2FFF, and an
application is based at 0x5000 and 0x3000.

A PAGE IS A CHEAP THING TO GIVE IT AND AN EXPENSIVE THING TO RUN OUT OF. An
application still has 44K of Program Memory before the vector table and the
largest one here uses 7.5K, so what was taken from applications is space nothing
has ever asked for - while what the system gained is the difference between
building the next thing and counting bytes while building it.

Not doubling, which was the version that would have cost application space worth
minding. One page, and the same again when it is needed.

Nothing in the machine knows where the wall is, so this is 34 #Base lines, one
threshold in the fault handler, and the table in the CosmOS README that
Tests/docs.sh reads its limits out of.

The native assembler's scratch map had to move with it, and docs.sh said so
before anything ran: its data reached 0x40D6 and its buffers began at 0x4000, so
they were sitting on its variables. That file already carries a paragraph about
the floor coming up and the map staying where it was. It has happened twice now,
and been caught by a check the first time wrote.

Twenty three recordings are the same runs a page higher.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
2026-09-01 16:49:12 -04:00

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NASM

; Once.asm
; Starts something else next time, and only next time.
;
; > Once /System/Boot/mine.bin
; next start: /System/Boot/mine.bin, once
; > reboot
;
; Writes /System/Boot/once.cfg, which the loader reads before boot.cfg and DELETES BEFORE
; IT JUMPS. So the image runs on the next start and on no other, whatever happens to it -
; a one shot that hangs cannot hang twice, because the request is gone before it ran.
;
; ---- What this is for ----
;
; A program that owns the whole machine has nowhere to run. It cannot be started from the
; shell, because starting it means there is no shell; and pointing boot.cfg at it means a
; machine that keeps starting it, which is a poor place to find a mistake. This is the
; missing step: write it, ask for it once, and the system comes back by itself.
;
; The file is the same format as boot.cfg because a second format for one setting would be
; a second format. It says `system` for the same reason.
;
; Written by Anachronaut
#Include services.asm
#Program
#Base 0x5000
start:
SETD.0 Wanted
INIB 0d128
SWI osArgument
MVQA
BNA noName
SETD.0 Wanted
LDA.0
BRA noName
; The line, built as "system " and then the name. One write, because the file is the
; whole of the request and half of it would be a request for half a thing.
SETD.0 Prefix
SETD.1 Line
RCAL copyString
SETD.0 Wanted
RCAL copyString
INIA 0x0A
STA.1
INCD.1
RSTA
STA.1
; How long it came to, which is what the write is told.
SETD.0 Line
RCAL measure
SETD.0 OncePath
SETD.1 Line
SWI osFileSave
MVQA
BNA noWrite
SETD.0 DoneText
SWI osPrintString
SETD.0 Wanted
SWI osPrintString
SETD.0 OnceText
SWI osPrintString
RSTA
SWI osExit
noName:
SETD.0 Usage
SWI osPrintString
INIA 0d2
SWI osExit
noWrite:
SETD.0 NoWriteText
SWI osPrintString
INIA 0d1
SWI osExit
; DP0 names a string and DP1 where it goes. DP1 is left on the zero at the end, so one
; string can be written straight after another.
copyString:
LDA.0
BRA copyDone
STA.1
INCD.0
INCD.1
BRI copyString
copyDone:
RRET
; DP0 names the line. osFileSave wants a size, and a file of whole blocks and a tail is
; that count with the blocks in A and the tail in B - one block is never full here.
measure:
RSTB
measureLoop:
LDA.0
BRA measureDone
INCD.0
MVQB
INIA 0d1
CCF
ADD
MVQB
BRI measureLoop
measureDone:
RSTA
RRET
#Data
#Base 0x3000
Prefix:
"system "
Usage:
"once what? try: Once /System/Boot/something.bin
"
DoneText:
"next start: "
OnceText:
", once
"
NoWriteText:
"it would not write
"
OncePath:
"/System/Boot/once.cfg"
Wanted:
#Reserve 0d129
Line:
#Reserve 0d160