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  • '''MINITS''' was a [[PDP-11]] [[multi-tasking]] [[operating system]] created at [[MIT]], primarily for use in [[data network]] [[host]]s. It was mostly use ...he 'real' [[Network Control Program (ARPANET)|NCP]]. In fact, MINITS doesn't support any [[IMP interface]]s. The use of 'NCP' was just a terminological
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  • somewhere (probably at the end, with the other register definitions). This is not an issue on the -11/40, since it doesn't support floating point. However, this means that m40.s does not include the
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  • ...re failures, the disk data structures wouldn't get corrupted if SALV weren't run. ...neered WYSIWYG terminals and typesetters for the newspaper industry (which at that time was one of the few industries that could afford $100,000 workstat
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  • * [[1822 interface|1822]]/[[VDH]] at the bottom, to transfer bits/'messages' (ARPANET jargon for [[packet]]s) be ...umbers were 32 bits long. Only one connection was permitted to each socket at any host.
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  • ...ernational Business Machines|IBM]] had its own competing encoding standard at the time, [[Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code|EBCDIC]], which | 020 || 024 || 14 || DC4 || ^T || Device Control Four
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  • ...speed [[local area network|LAN]], the then-new [[Ethernet]], also invented at PARC. In addition to the [[keyboard]], users could use a [[mouse]] to inter ...eing called the machine's '[[microprocessor]]', although that term did not at the time have the meaning that it does now). As a result; it could emulate
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  • ...symbolic link is created), such that references to the first name wind up at the second. ...|ITS]] Reference Manual 1.5 from 1969 mentions links. 1.4 from 1968 doesn't.
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  • L0025 mov a,#01H ;both recv & xmit at same baud rate mov @r0,a ;store baud rate at r3d
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  • ...:PC05Internals.jpg|thumb|left|200px|PC05 internals; punch in front, reader at left rear]] ...r|single-width]] [[printed circuit board|PCB]] with plated contact fingers at one end, to plug into the backplane in the PC04/05; the connector on the ot
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  • won't work. Neither will l1 = l2 = 0. initializer or assigned to something it doesn't matter. If it is
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  • that can be evaluated at compile time. Defined but this won't happen instantly.
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  • ...al]]s are either fully off, or fully on) to convert input power to output, at the [[voltage]] needed. ...gh a transformer (since transformers can be physically smaller and lighter at a higher frequency, for a given power throughput), and then convert the out
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  • ...the [[kernel]] does a 'panic', which it does when something happens it can't recover from; or after [[halt]]ing the [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]]. ...t is from the top of the kernel stack. In a process core dump, this starts at 01776 in the core dump file; in a dump of main memory, it is necessary to k
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  • ...: note that the process doesn't yet have a data or stack segment allocated at that point, just the 'user' area. (The two will be stored contiguously with ...with main memory); for the first instance of a pure-text program/command, at least:
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  • == Sys V R3 on AT&T 3B2 == ...ml AT&T 3B2/400 Simulator] is now a part of [[SIMH]]. It can run "real" AT&T UNIX System V Release 3 on the simulator. Source code is also avaialable (b
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  • ...PDP-10|-10]], and [[PDP-11|-11]] computers at MIT. It was also widely used at [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]. n! Open location n, don't type
    6 KB (909 words) - 14:21, 27 June 2022
  • ...f the QBUS (which has some details about block mode transfers that I haven't seen elsewhere) is found in Appendix F of the ''KA680 CPU Module Technical ...s. As a general rule, one and only one device may be in control of the bus at any time. Usually this would be the processor, reading and writing to [[mai
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  • ...whether or not a bank is present, as well as what base address it resides at. It may perform other functions, but it does not seem to be documented in a ...of all zeroes, all ones, only one bit set, and only one bit clear. Looking at the table above, we got lucky and examples of many of these combinations we
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  • ...the PC is a story that has been told many times and a I will supply links at the bottom of this article. This article is mostly on the other story of PC ...e use the time command from the command prompt, it does not ask you for it at boot.). Most of the file on the disk are either the most basic DOS utilitie
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