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Simple demonstration program ofwait

Found at: sdf.org:70/computers/rainbow/decus/RB128/waitio1.txt

/ Simple demonstration program of
/ wait loop i/o,
/ this program writes a standared message
/ to the teletype.
/ The message is held in the "array" data---
/  one character per word with a null word terminating
/ the message
/ each character is fetched in turn, sent to the tty
/ with the program causing the cpu to wait until the
/ tty flag is set indicating safe delivery of character
*200
/ initialize a pointer to the start of the message
  cla
  tad addr
  dca ptr
/ main loop: fetch next character
loop,  cla
  tad i ptr
  sna
  jmp done        / if zero word, then finished
/ if have valid character , send it, wait for acknowledgement
  tls
wt, tsf
  jmp wt
/ update pointer so that get next character of the
/ message
  isz ptr
  nop
  jmp loop / back to start of loop
done, hlt
/ - - - - - - - - - -
addr,data         / address constant
ptr,0                / pointer variable
/ - - - - - - - - - 
/ now get the message, one character per word
/ it is of course the standard first message
data,0110
0145
0154
0154
0157
0040
0127
0157
0162
0154
0144
0015
0012
0
$



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