30 Mar
2023
30 Mar
'23
12:27 p.m.
On 3/30/23 12:34, Eric Moore wrote:
Here is a hello world:
(format t "Hello, World!")
It kinda works, need to throw maybe a \n on it, no idea what options
format takes.
It kicks you to the debugger pretty quick, where you get to find out
you need to go read the usim documentation on key mappings, unless you
have a knight or space cadet keyboard laying around and properly
mapped, lol.
Good times, it is definitely very different and weird.
-Eric
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 12:27 PM jim stephens via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
This is great to see. One note, you'll need to install libx11-dev
(on
Ubuntu 22 anyway)
then build it. Now to figure out how to play with it.
thanks
Jim
I've found a few things, will post my rough notes below. I noted some
things that get other than the debug prompt from the system.
The keyboard mapping in the usim document I found doesn't match what
this usim is doing, so finding an accurate usim would be nice.
Also having no experience here, a document on how to bring this up from
the keyboard to something more useful would be great, besides a usim
manual. I've got hints of that in the documentation on bitsavers, but
no document approaching it from the direction of how to use it.
I thought maybe Genera would be useful as a guide but not looking like
that now. That's why I put in a link anyway.
thanks
Jim
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*documents*
Genera guide, might be slightly useful to try things outl
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/symbolics/software/genera_8/Genera_U…
Bitsavers CADR documentation
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cadr/
Lisp machine manual 1981
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cadr/chinual_4thEd_Jul81.pdf
broken up manual
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cadr/chinual_6thEd_Jan84/
Window system guide
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cadr/Weinreb_Moon-Lisp_Machine_Manual_Jan_…
top level of source site
https://tumbleweed.nu/
*Examples*
(format t "Hello, World!")
(room)
(time)
(working-storage-area) fails spectacularly, gets lots of interesting
crap. probably restart
machine till real info is found. Somewhere someone suggested finding
usim docs. not found
at this point in the notes.
(print-disk-label) puts out a lot of stuff.
(decode-universal-time (get-universal-time))
https://tumbleweed.nu/r/usim/doc/trunk/README.md
from this page: https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/operat.html
f1 is the <system> button on the keyboard.
I Inspector menu shows up
hitting the buttons across the top two boxes crashed usim, or at least
it exits.
bottom box has what usually shows up when you bomb out with a bad function
Keys from the README.md file are inaccurate, but here they are. F1
works as <system> for me.
F2 propmts network. Not sure where they are defined.
Telnet doesn't work at least on my box. I did manage to try to connect
to a host, and
usim loops.
|[kbd] F1 = escape F2 = system F3 = network F4 = abort F5 = help F6 =
clear F7 = call F11 = end F12 = break |
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