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Late January work on TracList
2026-02-01
The idea of these changes is to take an existing trace listing (.tls) file of the lDOS kernel and find corresponding offsets within the MS-DOS v7.10 kernel. As they're both based on the same code base, I expect that there will be some similarities remaining.
Overview of educational topics
This article lists some topics I think any education on program logic work should cover. I collected these notes over several months, though I have thought about many of these for years at this point.
Late mid January work
2026-01-25
This week a little work happened. The MCP and CLU also got alternative backronyms to describe what they do: Multiple Command Payload and Comspec Load Utility.
Idiom on mistakes
It has been said that smart people learn from their mistakes, but wise people learn from other people's mistakes.
Dave A., quoted in The Daily WTF article on 2026-01-23
Debugger command to dump the first System File Table entries
I added to the ~/.dosemu/drive_c/ldebug.sld file so it contains the following:
