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  • ...the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia; we also don't require the detailed sourcing that Wikipedia does. Sentences starting with ...t. The system will send you an email with a temporary password; if you don't see it, and I have sent you an acknowledgement, check your spam-traps: we'v
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  • ...DNA were in the early 1970s. DIGITAL published its first DNA specification at about the same time that [[IBM]] announced its [[Systems Network Architectu ...e, and gateways to other types of networks including IBM’s SNA and [[ITU-T|CCITT]] Recommendation [[X.25]].
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  • | [[PDP-11/83|11/83]] || 1988 || QBUS || 22-bit || yes || J-11 at 18MHz, integrated FPU || 0.72 | [[PDP-11/84|11/84]] || 1988 || UNIBUS || 22-bit || yes || J-11 at 18MHz, integrated FPU || 0.72
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  • Note that the slots are numbered from 1 at the start; this is the inverse of the numbering for these backplanes in som Note that the two KM11 slots are at the other side of the backplane from the slots used for them in the 'Config
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  • Introduced in 1984. Successor of the [[PDP-11/23]]. At that time the components were VLSI, and these PDP-11's were marketed as Mic The J-11 was manufactured by Harris Semiconductors, and it hasn't been fully completed, it lacked the WCS and CIS options.
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  • ...m driven by servo data written on the pack (along with [[sector]] headers) at the factory. Packs ''cannnot'' be low-level re-formatted in the field, and The RL0x uses a cable with latching connectors at each end to go between drives; the part number of the original cable is 70-
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  • ...] than that, although only a limited subset was visible to the [[program]] at any time. ...e models provide two sets of general CPU registers (only one may be in use at any time); in those machines, a bit in the PSW selects which one is in use.
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  • The 11/780 didn't have just [[firmware]]; instead, like the [[KL10]], it loaded [[microcode]] It was announced on October 25<sup>th</sup>, 1977 at [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]'s Annual Meeting of Shareholders.[[#r
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  • ...ntegrated circuit|chips]] holding 400 NAND [[gate]]s; they were configured at manufacture time into the 39 different types used in the /750. ...''particular'' board, which ''has'' to go in that slot - and that slot can't hold ''anything'' else.
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  • | creator = Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy at Bell Labs ...ng system]] originally developed in the 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including [[Ken Thompson]], [[Dennis Ritchie]] and [[Douglas McIl
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  • ...dle and Bill Mensch for [[MOS Technology]] in 1975. When it was introduced at around $25 it was the least expensive full-featured [[Central Processing Un ...models). WDC continued to design other variants of the 65C02 and are still at it as of 2016. There were other manufacturers as well, including but not li
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  • * Norsk Data takes over a 16700 m2 industrial building at Skullerud, Oslo. The building is leased to Tandberg. * Tore realizes he STILL hasn't finished this page, and promises to do that any moment now.
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  • ...g SIMH]] on how to do so, that may be adapted to a real MicroVAX but I don't have one to test with. * [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/630/ VAX 630] - documentation at [[Bitsavers]]
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  • printf("Bad configuration at line %d\n%s\n", line,buf); + printf("%d: IP bridge %s don't exist.\n", line, buf);
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  • ...a typical two-cycle ([[Fetch]], Execute) memory-reference instruction ran at a speed of 0.333 MIPS. ...data break]]", the buffer address and word count were kept in main memory (at an [[address]] usually specified by [[jumper]]s on the device). This requir
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  • ...ause it was a 'fresh' implementation of [[UNIX]], not incumbered by the AT&T vs BSDI/CSRG legal wars, and was not sidelined because of it. While the BS *0.95 Linux had made rapid progress at this point, and was optimistically approaching the 1.0 milestone.
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  • ...computer at the scale of [[EDSAC]] was out of reach financially for Norway at the time, but the APEXC(N) was affordable. ...ection of Dr. T. Hysing, is undergoing tests. The second is in general use at the laboratories of the British Tabulating Machines Company."
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  • | creator = Gary Kildall at Digital Research, Inc. ...however it doesn't use directories (and the first version of (PC-)DOS didn't either). CP/M was a portable operating system that was popularized because
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  • ...ocatable, due to the use of the base register. The OS could load a program at any place in [[main memory]], and then set the base register to the beginni ..., so that the program could be fooled into seeing itself as always running at location zero. Thus, the program could be moved around in memory as needed,
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  • ...omething, you'll probably want to enter [[Integer BASIC]]. You're looking at this: At this point, you might want to learn more about [[Integer BASIC]], [[6502]]
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  • ...or example left or right shift orders, do not involve the use of the store at all. | T || Transfer the contents of the accumulator to storage location n an
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  • ...]. Later [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] licensed [[UNIX System V|SYSV]] from AT&T and started to incorporate the two versions, before switching to the SYSV k Installation instructions for [[SIMH]] can be found at [[Installing 4.2 BSD on SIMH]]. Also there is a [[Digital Ethernet UNIBUS
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  • M``#:'Q+0CP``!P!>T.^:%@``4-2`T5!>&?DH[XP6``"?`````&[4@]%3CZS> M"``9]=2#T5./```0`!GU%_]F%@``V@`1^P#O.`T``-`![Q$7``#[`.\&````
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  • at rq0 miniroot at rq1 rq.dsk
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  • Dungeon was created at the Programming Technology Division of the MIT Muddle was ported to TENEX machines at ISI, and Zork quickly followed. TOPS-20 support followed, and many sites r
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  • ...ch collects information on cryptography laws in many countries, but we can't vouch for its correctness.
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  • at rq0 miniroot at rq1 rq.dsk
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  • | creator = Western Electric, AT&T ...[[minicomputer]], from the [[PDP-7]] for which it was originally written, at [[Bell Laboratories]]. (Both versions were written in [[assembly language]]
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  • Once the BIOS has done it's POST, it will prompt what device to boot off of at the >>> prompt. The first tape device is mua0:. Once the tape has done th tmscp0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774, ipl 15
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  • trent at kerberos.berkeley.edu:/nbsd/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.allvax mcr0 at tr1
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  • | creator = AT&T/[[Western Electric]] ...form in the form of [[Unix/32V]]. This port was the 'official' port by AT&T to the platform.
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  • The Macintosh environment from 3.0.1 did not run on Shoebill at one point; now it does. (as of now the SCSI disk won't respond with Apple codes so the disk tool won't work).
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  • | creator = Bell Labs / AT&T / [[Western Electric]] ...V could only run on the [[VAX-11/780]] as it was the only VAX in existence at that time.
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  • ...me was not used at the time) from [[Computer Systems Research Group|CSRG]] at Berkeley improves upon the [[3BSD]] release with curses, better job control ...ou'll get a bunch of 'ZERO VECTOR UBA RESET: dz up 'errors... So this isn't very useful if you were hoping for some kind of multi-user system. The onl
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  • ...some of which is still far in advance of systems on more modern machines. At MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, an operating system called ITS (Incompat ...wonderful playground. They also discovered that there were some computers at MIT with some neat stuff on them and no security -- anyone who could connec
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  • ...ything else. 0.8.0 seems somewhat unstable, and the busmouse driver doesn't work on 0.9.1 . ...th nothing that my Pentium 3 cannot start the GUI portion. I really don’t know why. (I did try -O1 for CFLAGS)
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  • The University of California at Berkeley's '''Computer Systems Research Group''' ('''CSRG''' is the usual s ...nbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable] - An excellent overview of the history of
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  • ...is the form usually used now) was Microsoft's [[software port|port]] of AT&T [[UNIX]]; it was a [[portable]] [[operating system]] with ports to various ...e new 16-bit Motorola 68000 and Intel 8086 microprocessors. This put XENIX at the high end of the microcomputer market, which was still dominated by 8-bi
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  • ...t]] to put together the next generation [[operating system]] for the [[IBM AT]] and [[IBM PS/2|PS/2]] machines. ...]], hence the demand for the [[Intel 80286|i286]] 16-bit version. Someone at IBM even got the idea that the development tools should be a revenue stream
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  • | creator = AT&T/[[Western Electric]] ...or '''V6 UNIX''' - 'Unix' was still normally given in all capital letters at this point in time) was one of the most influential early versions of [[UNI
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  • ...he primary platform for [[BSD]] [[UNIX]]. Starting with the arrival of AT&T's [[Unix/32V]], which was modified into [[3 BSD]], and then the [[4 BSD]] r
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  • ...nt for a long time, from shortly after it first appeared in 1976, after AT+T cracked down on it to protect their UNIX intellectual property. During this
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  • VisiCorp couldn't keep up the momentum of VisiCalc, and others filled the void. ...intain the ability to run 8086 MS-DOS binaries on the 32 bit x86 platform, at least, so you can run the DOS version directly. [http://www.bricklin.com/hi
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  • ...old [[IBM]] on the idea of MS-DOS when talks for [[CP/M]] had broken down. At the time Microsoft had no such product but was able to secure the rights to ...ck]] [[interrupt]] and jump execution, although these are usually unstable at best.
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  • the start. The folks at Microsoft realized this; we were always amazed that so many folks at IBM didn't. I speak here not of the faceless low
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  • at v6/dist.tap. SIMH: Use "boot rk0" to load the first block from disk. You don't need
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  • Breakpoint at PC: 000007 stated in the manuals. After the reboot, things aren't so clean:
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  • ...0, the [[RP06]] and the RP07. Although these disk types are very different at the hardware level, from the simulator's point of view they differ only in at tu0 minsys.tape
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  • [[Image:mit-mc.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The KL10 MC machine at MIT]] ...initially for the [[PDP-6]], and later for [[PDP-10]]'s. It was developed at MIT in the [[MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|Artificial Intelligence
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  • characters. So don't change this unless you fix DDTDOC first!) interpreted at interrupt level when typed on the TTY; when
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  • ...significance, it's not up to the challenge of day to day usage, as it hasn't received any updates or patches in over 15 years. ...rsion of 386 BSD that was released, on March 17, 1992. This version doesn't share its disk with MS-DOS or any other OS's, and uses a VAX style disktab/
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  • ...d pretty much everything that the CSRG team could identify as not being AT&T source, and re-wrote what they could. The result being based on a failed po This code release was the basis of the AT&T vs CSRG lawsuit. The CSRG had to later withdraw this software and encourage
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  • particular machine. Differences are listed at the end of Don't shoot me, but the default for -I has changed once
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  • distribution office at +1-415-642-7780. the 4.3BSD distribution that is not derived from AT&T
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  • is intended to be used to provide an advance look at some of the 4.4BSD (at least in part based on feedback from this test group).
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  • ...system]] got its start after UFRJ could not secure a source license to AT&T [[UNIX]]. So they decided to write their own. Using a [[Version 7]] [[Motor
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  • (at the time with the name PLURIX) to the computer PEGASUS. This Visit regularly the homepage of TROPIX, at
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  • | caption = H6180 Multics at Honeywell CISL ...was very new at that time (only a handful of other systems implemented it at that point); but this was not a new idea with Multics.
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  • commit [-f fmt] [-t cache] filename convert [-c] [-p] [-f fmt] [-t cache] [-O output_fmt] [-o options] [-s snapshot_name] filename [filename2
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  • ...incompatible with IDE CD-ROM's. This is simply because they did not exist at the time. So you would have to follow the network installation guide. You ...0.10.5 which will allow me to set my cpu to an Intel Pentium CPU so I won't have to worry about the inf files.
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  • With Qemu 0.10.5 I was able to select the cpu level so I don't know if it's as troubled as NT 3.1. ...seeming to lock but it's working... There must be some IO timeout issues at hand..
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  • ...d of course from [http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ here]. Building SIMH isn't in the scope of this document, just grab some binaries and let's go. Starting at 0x4d4d
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  • ...on the Dec Alpha. I also used a Dec Alpha as a workstation (the multia!) at the time I recall it was cool as it could decode MP3’s in realtime! Sadl ...cking the hard disk. I also have a 3.1 CD with the win32 sdk & it doesn’t work either. However 4.0 works fine! I should also add, this gave me a ch
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  • ...eta|December 1991 pre-release]]. Betas were then released in July of 1992, at the Professional Developers Conference in San Francisco, followed up with a ...er none of the ARC capable machines were 'production grade' so they couldn't certify for certain that it'd work. Later copies of NT 3.1 have an ALPHA d
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  • available in the Windows NT Driver Library. Please see the section at AT&T 3406
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  • ...hing from the program manager to the explorer desktop shell. While it wasn't an object desktop like [[OS/2]]'s presentation manager, it was a good enoug ...was OSR2, short for [[OEM]] Service Release 2, and was released in 1996. At the time Windows 95 was first released, it was limited to the FAT 16 [[file
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  • ...were partnering with [[IBM]] with the [[OS/2]] project. However they didn't want to have such a large 'break' with their main product of the time, [[MS ...protected mode and blew away the old DOS 640 KB RAM barrier. If this hadn't happened, we'd probably be using some variant of OS/2 today instead of Wind
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  • By default doesn't include SDK components for OS/2 or Novel Netware. ...d was 486 optimizations. I think the 16-bit & 32-bit products were merged at this time.
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  • ...ed BACKWARDS from industry standards as people apparently at the time didn't know if they were allowed to use the standard parallel & serial ports witho ...rt OS is loaded into this special WCS to emulate a ROM once it is loaded. At the time of the Amiga 1000's launch it was a rushed product and Commodore f
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  • ...Apple (Woz was busy with the [[disk]] [[hardware]] and couldn't do the DOS at the same time, which was why Laughton was moved from writing Basic to writi
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  • ...m (replacing DOS 3.3) was introduced. ProdDOS was up to eight times faster at accessing 5 1/4" floppy disks and introduced a lot of other improvements. ...vailable for developers in October 1983, but the Apple IIe apparently didn't start to ship with ProDOS until some when during the first quarter of 1984.
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  • ...UNIX]] distributions created by the [[Computer Systems Research Group‎]] at Berkeley. The CSRG put together the following releases: * [[Net/1]] - The TCP/IP source, and other programs free of the AT&T copyrite
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  • available in the Windows NT Driver Library. Please see the section at AT&T[R] 3406
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  • at rp0 rp06.disk at tu0 32v.tape
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  • 1. Mount the magtape on drive 0 at load point. [Make sure that the ring is not inserted.] 3. Key in at 30000 and execute the following boot program: [You may enter in lower-cas
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  • @{"12. CDRoms and Tapes -Why my NEC don't work " link 12} @{"13. Finding A2090/2090a Software -I can't get no... " link 13}
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  • ...g]], [[graphics|graphical]] [[operating environment]]. GEOS was best known at the time for bringing high quality [[font]]s to low end [[printer]]s. ...bly language|assembly]], and with a massive memory constraint, there weren't that many available.
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  • ...CC [[source code]] that he used, and that I'm sure most people simply didn't know about this software.. GCC ver 1.36 and related utilities for IBM-PC/AT 386
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  • Then all of the derived projects had to ensure that they didn't have those files, or anything derived from them. I think at the time this would have impacted:
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  • At the time it was noted for shipping on a CD, and having its full source code ...orld had shifted to the [[Linux]] kernel which had no legacy or ties to AT&T.
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  • == Microport System V/AT Runtime System == ...as introduced in the late 106-s. Now you are about to implement it on your AT-compatible system.
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  • “Dell UNIX? I didn’t know there was such a thing.” A couple of weeks ago I had my new XO with me for breakfast at a nearby bakery café. Other patrons were drawn to seeing an XO for the fir
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  • | creator = Bell Labs / AT&T / [[Western Electric]] ...t was allowed to enter other lines of business, including software, and AT&T management saw an opportunity to monetize the then-very-popular UNIX [[oper
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  • ...at a time.'' In any case, packs remain sectored 512 bytes per sector, and at the lowest driver levels the system deals with 512 byte disk records. 1. Mount the magtape on drive 0 at load point, making sure that the ring is not inserted.
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  • M``#:'Q+0CP``!0!>T`&?!``!(-`!GP0@`2#0`9\$8``@PX_D%@4`CY@Y!0!0 M[T,3``#[`>\=#@``W^^+.```^P'O"!```-T`W^]\.```^P+OV08``-!0K?S5
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  • ...ompetitors to those vendors) decided on a generic term so that they wouldn't have to refer to other companies in their own product advertisements. As th * Herb Johnson's S-100 pages at http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/s100bus.html
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  • ...to install [[VM/370]] into the [[Hercules]] emulator. Sadly I really don't know how to use the OS, and I've just gotten it to install but I wanted to ...n your 3270 terminal program, and attach to the localhost port 3270. Back at the Hercules console type in:
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  • | name = IBM 5170/IBM AT | caption = An IBM AT
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  • ?_f Locations starting at _a_d_d_r_e_s_s in _o_b_j_f_i_l are printed /_f Locations starting at _a_d_d_r_e_s_s in _c_o_r_f_i_l are printed
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  • new files are placed at the end. t Print a table of contents of the archive file. If no
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  • new files are placed at the end. t Print a table of contents of the archive file. If no
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  • [[32v 1m at|at(1)]], [[32v 1m cron|cron(1)]], [[32v 1m mail|mail(1)]] _C_a_l_e_n_d_a_r'_s extended idea of `tomorrow' doesn't account for
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  • ever, if a single C program is compiled and loaded all at _m_o_n_i_t_o_r(3) at the start and arranges to write out a
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  • cu telno [ -t ] [ -s speed ] [ -a acu ] [ -l line ] ...fers of text files. '''Telno''' is the telephone number, with minus signs at appropriate places for
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  • ...braces, brackets, bars, c and f for ceiling and floor, and "" for nothing at all (useful for a right-side-only bracket). ...dot, hat, tilde, bar, vec, dyad, and under: x dot = f(t) bar is $x dot = f(t) bar$, y dotdot bar ~=~ n under is $y dotdot bar ~=~ n under$, and x vec ~=
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  • must be placed where it can't be mistaken as a range The order of precedence of operators at the same parenthesis
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  • If any argument is a library, it is searched exactly once at -T The next argument is a hexadecimal number which sets
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  • removes blanks at the end of lines, and replaces multiple -t Place the result on the standard output instead of in
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  • placed in the text at the point of reference; by default the then title use -sA+T.
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  • sorted lines are rotated so the keyword comes at the middle word when it is printed at the middle of the page. _T_a_i_l and
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