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- | **TSS/8.24** | + | ===== TSS/8.24+ ===== |
- | //TSS/8// is a timesharing system for the DEC PDP-8 designed by Adrian van de Goor, a grad student at CMU. It originally required a specific hardware configuration of the PDP-8, 8I or 8E incorporating the RF08 with at least one RS08 or a DF32. At LCM+L TSS/8 has been modified by Josh Dersch to run on a PDP-8/e with DECtapes and RK05 disk drives. | ||
- | **SURVIVAL NOTES** | + | //TSS/8// is a timesharing system for the DEC PDP-8 originally designed by Adrian van de Goor, a grad student at CMU and later enhanced and sold as a complete system by DEC in 1968. It originally required a PDP-8, 8I or 8E with an RF08 or DF32 attached to at least one RS08 or a DS32 drive for swapping and filesystem. |
- | | + | Each user gets a virtual PDP-8 with 4KW of memory, and a directory on disk for file storage. |
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- | - Job control:// CTRL-BS// will suspend | + | **Logging |
- | - //R CAT// will list your directory | + | |
- | - //R BASIC// will run BASIC | + | After connecting, you will be at the login " |
- | - //R HELP:*// will list all subsystems that have online HELP documentation | + | |
+ | '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Substituting your PPN and password. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Logging out:** | ||
+ | |||
+ | The '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | If for some reason you seem to be stuck, try '' | ||
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+ | **Running programs** | ||
+ | |||
+ | Running a program from the system library or from your directory can be accomplished via the '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | will run the CATALOG program, displaying the contents of your directory. | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | DISK FILES FOR USER 0, 2 ON 19-DEC-79 | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | NAME SIZE PROT DATE | ||
+ | PALD .SAV 16 | ||
+ | LOADER.SAV | ||
+ | FORT .SAV | ||
+ | FOSL .SAV | ||
+ | PIP | ||
+ | SYSTAT.SAV | ||
+ | EDIT .SAV | ||
+ | FOCAL .SAV 16 | ||
+ | BASIC .SAV 38 | ||
+ | CAT | ||
+ | PUTR .SAV 21 | ||
+ | ODTHI .SAV | ||
+ | FLAP .SAV | ||
+ | PTLOAD.SAV | ||
+ | CHESS .SAV 17 | ||
+ | ALGOL .SAV 32 | ||
+ | ACTUNG.SAV | ||
+ | LISP .SAV 17 | ||
+ | </code> | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Stopping a running program** | ||
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+ | '' | ||
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+ | **Talking to other users** | ||
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+ | The '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | .SYSTAT | ||
+ | |||
+ | STATUS OF TSS/8.24 DEC PDP-8 #1 AT 12:47:30 ON 19 DEC 79 | ||
+ | |||
+ | UPTIME 19:06:31 | ||
+ | |||
+ | JOB WHO | ||
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+ | | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
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+ | AVAILABLE CORE 4K FREE CORE=252 | ||
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+ | BUSY DEVICES | ||
+ | |||
+ | 3269 FREE DISK SEGMENTS | ||
+ | </code> | ||
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+ | The " | ||
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+ | '' | ||
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+ | So for example, | ||
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+ | '' | ||
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+ | Sends a friendly message to console K02. | ||
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+ | **Documentation** | ||
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+ | The Edusystem-50 manual provides fairly accurate documentation for the version of TSS/8.24 running at LCM+L, and is available at [[http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ | ||
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+ | Detailed documentation for BASIC is available at [[http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/ | ||
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+ | ALGOL documentation can be found at [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | LISP is documented at [[http:// | ||
- | The EDUsystem-50 provides fairly accurate documentation for TSS/8.24 and is available here: | ||
- | [[http:// |