Missing c86manual.txt?

[ghaerr]

Hello @hintron,

Nice repo you have here!

I notice in the gh-pages branch, the ECEn 425 Online Resources link has a C86 Compiler Features page that has a bad link to a C86 Manual, toolchain-8086/stable/labs/c86manual.txt.

Do you happen to have a copy of that somewhere? I can't seem to find it anywhere on your GitHub.io site. I am currently helping to evaluate the C86 compiler and its assembler for its suitability to be used as a self-hosted C compiler for the ELKS Project. It would be really helpful to be able to read about what the C86 compile does and does not do.

Thank you!

[hintron]

Let me take a look... When the class website went down, I had to scrape together the contents from Wayback Machine and from my own personal TA files, but some things might have been permanently lost. Hopefully I can find that doc somewhere.

[hintron]

I do not have it, but let me ask my professor to see if he still has a copy of it.

[hintron]

In the meantime, I added what I think is the missing manual in commit f9182e5. See https://hintron.github.io/8086-toolchain/stable/labs/c86manual.txt.

If my professor gets back to me with his copy of the manual, I'll compare and see if there are any differences. But I suspect it will be the same.

[ghaerr]

Thanks @hintron, this really helps!

[hintron]

You can thank @bocke for finding this copy!

My professor did not keep a copy of the manual, but he also didn't recall making any special modifications to it (if he did, then he probably wouldn't have described caveats regarding the manual in https://hintron.github.io/8086-toolchain/stable/labs/C86Features.html - he would have just updated the manual). I also never recalled referencing a c86 manual that had any class-specific custom changes in it when I took/TA'd the class.

Owing to the fact that the manual Bojan found was almost the exact same size as indicated on the class webpage, and that it was also a text file as indicated on the class webpage (and also looked vaguely familiar), I assume it is roughly the same file. At this point, it's the best we got anyways :)

[ghaerr]

Thanks for the background @hintron. And yes @bocke has been skillfully digging up all kinds of stuff relating to the history of C86. Thanks @bocke!