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- | **TSS-8 User Tutorial** | ||
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- | //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. | ||
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- | Each user gets a virtual PDP-8 with 4KW of memory, and a directory on disk for file storage. | ||
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- | **Logging in:** | ||
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- | After connecting, you will be at the login " | ||
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- | '' | ||
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- | Substituting your PPN and password. | ||
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- | **Logging out:** | ||
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- | The '' | ||
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- | If for some reason you seem to be stuck, try '' | ||
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- | **Running programs** | ||
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- | Running a program from the system library or from your directory can be accomplished via the '' | ||
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- | '' | ||
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- | will run the CATALOG program, displaying the contents of your directory. | ||
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- | DISK FILES FOR USER 0, 2 ON 19-DEC-79 | ||
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- | 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 | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | **Stopping a running program** | ||
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- | '' | ||
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- | **Talking to other users** | ||
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- | The '' | ||
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- | .SYSTAT | ||
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- | STATUS OF TSS/8.24 DEC PDP-8 #1 AT 12:47:30 ON 19 DEC 79 | ||
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- | UPTIME 19:06:31 | ||
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- | JOB WHO | ||
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- | AVAILABLE CORE 4K FREE CORE=252 | ||
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- | BUSY DEVICES | ||
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- | 3269 FREE DISK SEGMENTS | ||
- | </ | ||
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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:// | ||
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- | Detailed documentation for BASIC is available at [[http:// | ||
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- | ALGOL documentation can be found at [[http:// | ||
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- | LISP is documented at [[http:// | ||
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tss-8_user_tutorial.txt · Last modified: 2023/07/01 06:01 by hc9