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OS/8 was the primary OS for the [[PDP-8]]. OS/8 is different from modern OS's as you don't change paths/drives you assign the DSK: volume to whatever disk it is you want to work from. Also running exe's have to be on the SYS: volume. | OS/8 was the primary OS for the [[PDP-8]]. OS/8 is different from modern OS's as you don't change paths/drives you assign the DSK: volume to whatever disk it is you want to work from. Also running exe's have to be on the SYS: volume. | ||
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delete basic.* | delete basic.* | ||
deassign dsk: | deassign dsk: | ||
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squish sys: | squish sys: | ||
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R FRTS | R FRTS | ||
ADVENT | ADVENT | ||
(ESCAPE) | (ESCAPE) | ||
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Revision as of 16:46, 15 November 2010
| OS/8 | |
| Type: | Time-sharing |
|---|---|
| Creator: | DEC |
| Multitasking: | limited with multiuser |
| Architecture: | PDP-8 |
| Date Released: | 1970? |
OS/8 was the primary OS for the PDP-8. OS/8 is different from modern OS's as you don't change paths/drives you assign the DSK: volume to whatever disk it is you want to work from. Also running exe's have to be on the SYS: volume.
Contents
Example of usage
delete basic.* deassign dsk: assign rxa1: dsk: squish sys: copy rxa0:<rxa1:*.sv R FRTS ADVENT (ESCAPE)
Some commands
HELP
BASIC
DELETE
deletes a file. You can use wildcards.
SQUISH
Squish is like defrag, in that it'll actually delete files, and move stuff around so you can get the maximum free space..
COPY
copy copys a file, but the syntax is different from most OS's...
copy Destination:<source:FILES
So that the follwing:
copy rxa0:<rxa1:*.sv
copys all the .sv files from rxa1 to rxa0
RUN
Interesting notes
OS/8 could run under another OS RTS8 as a virtualized guest, allowing each user to have their own virtual PDP-8.
