ND-10745A00 — ND-Ada, version A (rev 00)¶

Status: VERIFIED (real floppy images decoded, including two working :MODE scripts) · Install source: [PI] + [MODE]

Field	Value
Part number	`10745A00`
Base product	`ND-10745`
CPU target	ND-500
OS requirement	SINTRAN III version J or later

Distribution media¶

Two 8" floppies, downloaded from NDwiki (imaged by Torfinn "Tingo" Ingolfsen, uploaded 2024-05-26, mirrored on https://www.ndwiki.org/wiki/ND-10745A):

Floppy volume Contents

10745A00-XX-01D DESCRIPTION-FILE:DESC (binary domain-metadata, not readable text — same format seen on other Linkage-Loader-domain floppies in this catalog) · INSTALL-ADA-A00:PROG / ADA-INST-DD-A00:PROG (compiled installer, two-part) · ADA-COMPILER-A00:PSEG/:DSEG/:LINK (the compiler domain) · ADA-BLD-ENV-A00:MODE (real, decoded build script — see below) · ADA-SYS:ADA, ADA-IOX-SPEC:ADA, ADA-TIO-SPEC:ADA, ADA-TIO-BODY:ADA, ADA-CAL-SPEC:ADA (Ada source for the environment packages SYSTEM, IO_EXCEPTIONS, TEXT_IO, CALENDAR) · ADA-LILO-A00:PSEG/:DSEG/:LINK (empty placeholders — link-and-load-Ada domain, populated at build time)

10745A00-XX-02D ADA-DEMO-A00:ADA (Tower of Hanoi demo source) · ADA-DEMO-A00:MODE (real, decoded compile/link/run script — see below) · ADA-LILO-COPY:PSEG/:DSEG/:LINK (the pre-built link-and-load-Ada domain) · ADA-RUN-TIME-A00:NRF, ADA-TIO-A00:NRF, ADA-CAL-A00:NRF (compiled runtime library modules — the PLANC-implemented halves of TEXT_IO/CALENDAR)

Installer¶

INSTALL-ADA-A00:PROG + ADA-INST-DD-A00:PROG — a two-part compiled installer (same shape as other ND-500 product installers in this catalog: a driver :PROG plus a data/description :PROG). Its internals were not decoded (compiled binary) — use it interactively if the floppy is mounted on a live system.

Building the ADA-ENVIRONMENT library — real, decoded `ADA-BLD-ENV-A00:MODE`¶

Source: byte-for-byte decode (byte & 0x7F) of the real :MODE file. [MODE]

@CC      BUILD-ENVIRON:MODE
@CC
@CC Mode file to prepare everything which will be available to users
@CC  from the ADA-ENVIRONMENT
@CC
@CC Delete existing library partition (including any NRF files), if any
@DELETE-USER-FILE ADA-ADA--0000:NRF N
@DELETE-FILE ADA-ENVIRONMENT:ALIB
@CREATE-FILE ADA-ENVIRONMENT:ALIB 0
@CC
@CC Create a library for ADA-ENVIRONMENT
@CC
@ND
ADA
LIBRARY
CREATE-LIBRARY ADA-ENVIRONMENT

EXIT
EXIT
EXIT
@CC
@CC Compile package SYSTEM
@CC
@ND
ADA
LIBRARY
OPEN-LIBRARY ADA-ENVIRONMENT

EXIT
COMPILE ADA-SYS:ADA 0
CC package SYSTEM defines implementation-dependent characteristics
CLOSE-LIBRARY
EXIT
EXIT
@CC
@CC  Compile the package specification (nb. CALENDAR has no body)
@CC   nb. if any CALENDAR functions/procedures are written in Ada,
@CC        a body will be necessary
@CC
@ND
ADA
LIBRARY
OPEN-LIBRARY ADA-ENVIRONMENT

EXIT
CC
CC The ADA-COMMON version of package CALENDAR
CC
COMPILE ADA-CAL-SPEC:ADA 0
CLOSE-LIBRARY
EXIT
EXIT
@CC
@CC compile a local version package CALENDAR PLANC routines
@CC
@CC @ND PLANC
@CC DEBUG-MODE ON
@CC COMPILE (ADA-COMMON)ADA-CAL:SYMB,0,(ADA-COMMON)ADA-CAL-A00:NRF
@CC
@CC Compile package IO_EXCEPTIONS (specification only, body is not required)
@CC
@ND
ADA
LIBRARY
OPEN-LIBRARY ADA-ENVIRONMENT

EXIT
CC
CC The ADA-COMMON version of package IO_EXCEPTIONS
CC
COMPILE ADA-IOX-SPEC:ADA 0
CC
CC The Text_IO package specification
CC
COMPILE ADA-TIO-SPEC:ADA 0
CC
CC The Text_IO package body
CC
COMPILE ADA-TIO-BODY:ADA 0
CLOSE-LIBRARY
EXIT
EXIT
@CC
@CC Compile the PLANC version of Text_IO routines
@CC
@CC @ND PLANC
@CC DEBUG-MODE ON
@CC COMPILE (ADA-COMMON)ADA-TIO:SYMB,0,(ADA-COMMON)ADA-TIO-A00:NRF

(the file ends there — 1744 bytes total, fully captured)

Reading it: confirms the ADA: top-level command (@ND then ADA) and the LIBRARY sub-command group described in the PI sheet's command diagram. A "library" (:ALIB file) holds compiled Ada package units; CREATE-LIBRARY/OPEN-LIBRARY/CLOSE-LIBRARY/COMPILE are the real verbs. The commented-out (@CC) PLANC compile lines are left in the script as documentation — the actual CALENDAR/TEXT_IO runtime bodies for these two packages are implemented in PLANC (matching the PI sheet's "PLANC routines can be incorporated... by use of the interface pragma" claim) and were pre-compiled into ADA-CAL-A00:NRF/ADA-TIO-A00:NRF rather than compiled fresh by this script.

Compiling, linking, and running a program — real, decoded `ADA-DEMO-A00:MODE`¶

Source: byte-for-byte decode of the real :MODE file, in full. [MODE]

@CC
@CC            This file compiles and runs the HANOI demonstration.
@CC It creates a library partition TEST:ALIB, a domain TEST with segment TEST.
@CC             If any of these already exist they will be deleted.
@CC                It produces an nrf file ADA-TEST-0000001:NRF.
@CC             The display will only work on a Tandberg terminal.
@CC
@DELETE-USER-FILE ADA-TEST-0000:NRF N
@DELETE-FILE TEST:ALIB
@CREATE-FILE TEST:ALIB,,
@ND ADA
LIBRARY
CREATE-LIBRARY-PARTITION TEST

EXIT
COMPILE ADA-DEMO 1
LIBRARY
DOCUMENT-UNIT HANOI
TOWER OF HANOI DEMONSTRATION

EXIT
CLOSE-LIBRARY-PARTITION
EXIT
@ND LINK-LOAD-ADA
ABORT-BATCH-ON-ERROR OFF
RELEASE-DOMAIN TEST
DELETE-DOMAIN TEST
SET-DOMAIN "TEST"
OPEN-SEGMENT "TEST",,
ADA-PROGRAM-LOAD HANOI TEST
EXIT
@ND TEST
4

Reading it: this is the full real compile-link-run cycle for ND-Ada. 1. @ND ADA -> LIBRARY -> CREATE-LIBRARY-PARTITION TEST makes a private library partition (as opposed to the shared ADA-ENVIRONMENT library built above). 2. COMPILE ADA-DEMO 1 compiles the demo unit into that partition (the 1 selects a listing option; not decoded further here). 3. A separate top-level command family, @ND LINK-LOAD-ADA, does the linking — confirmed real verbs RELEASE-DOMAIN/DELETE-DOMAIN/SET-DOMAIN/OPEN-SEGMENT/ADA-PROGRAM-LOAD. This matches the ADA.LINK: command group named in the PI sheet's command diagram. 4. @ND TEST starts the built domain directly by its own name; 4 is a parameter passed to the running program (not decoded further — likely a demo menu selection).

Documentation¶

Product Information (PI-sheet): ../../Product-Info/ND-10745-A1-EN.md
Manual(s): ND-60.198 ND-Ada User Manual · ND-60.158 Symbolic Debugger User Manual · ND-60.136 ND-500 Loader/Monitor — none located in this repo

Provenance & open items¶

Source: two real 8" floppy images, downloaded from NDwiki and decoded in this session (ndfs -t/ndtool -x for the file listing/extraction, byte & 0x7F for both :MODE files).
TODO: INSTALL-ADA-A00:PROG's exact interactive prompts were not decoded (compiled binary). The command-diagram groups ADA: (general/compiler) and ADA.LIB: (library maintenance) are now evidenced by the two scripts above; no separate worked example of the raw ADA compiler top-level commands (outside the LIBRARY sub-menu) was found.

Parent: ../README.md (ND-10745 product overview)