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- About ROBIX
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- Robix is to debuggers what RISC is to microprocessors. It is a bare bones debugger that can be ported to
- any computer system that can print characters to a screen and get characters from a keyboard. It is meant
- to be a foundation for developing other code. Device drivers can be broken up into very small steps and
- each step can be a single command so the developer can walk through algorithms at any granularity. Then
- those small steps can be combined into larger steps for even more complex commands. And finally, the large
- steps can be combined into a general device driver for diagnostics or O.S. kernel support.
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- There are two commands that are common to all versions of ROBIX, display memory, and fill memory.
- If a system has I/O mapped I/O, then two additional commands are used, Input port, and output port.
- With this command set and enough time, the user can do anything a microprocessor can do. By becoming
- the microprocessor, the developer can try algorithms out before coding them.
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- If you have nothing to start with and want to develope a small piece of code. Then start with
- Robix and build on top of it. Your commands can be pieces of your algorhythms
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- The central routine in Robix is GetValue. You use this to get hex numbers from a command line to use as
- parameters in your commands. Look at the display command to see how to use GetValue.