13 Aug
1998
13 Aug
'98
9:13 a.m.
When the system was booted (As far I can know..) you
loaded the bootstrap
from a paper tape (KA10, maybe KL?) or from the disk (KS10). Then you got
either NTSDDT or DSKDMP, depending on how you were set up.
Then you told DSKDMP or NTSDDT to load .;@ ITS and start it.
This brought the system to timesharing.
NTSDDT was completely different from the HACTRN, and it's not documented.
A few of the commands were the same.
Oh. That clarifies things. (Though God knows what maneuvers are going on in
memory while all this is happening.) So there really is no comparison between
a non-timesharing system and a timesharing system, I guess. (That is, the
"single-user mode" analogy is wrong.)
Does .;@ have any meaning or is it just a bunch of rarely-typed characters?
[Do I run ITS?]
I wish :) bony is actually a Linux box, with a creatively abused copy of
telnetd. It's a PWORD clone and doesn't work correctly, I'm writing a new
version of it using the original source that should behave like the real one.
I thought you had an account on a -10 or a -10 clone. What about that?
I am trying to mutilate ITS so as to make an x86 clone
of it, but I don't
know what I'm doing. So it's going nowhere.
Aren't the sources available? (I forget the FTP site.)
-- Derek