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  • ...INSYS tape image. This is a DUMPER tape containing a minimal ITS bootstrap system. The contents of these may vary, however a usable one is available here: mi This tells the simulator that you are using a Y2K-aware operating system (which ITS is), so it can report the time correctly for the 21st century.
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  • ...ng System''' (usually '''ITS''') was an early [[time-sharing]] [[operating system]]; initially for the [[PDP-6]], and later for [[PDP-10]]'s. It was develope ...s one of the first OS's connected to the [[ARPANET]], and it was on an ITS system that the first versions of [[Emacs]], [[MACLISP]], [[Scheme]], and [[CLU]]
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  • '''ITS DDT''' is the [[command processor]] for [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]]; it is actually a [[debugger]]. DISOWN system call. Each bit controls a separate option.
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  • ...m a [[BSD]]-based [[UNIX]] into a [[UNIX System V|SYSV]]-based [[operating system]]. However, when the change from [[SunOS]] to Solaris was announced, the ma Integrates Most Widely Used 32-bit System Software on a Single CD;
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  • | caption = Logging into a 386 BSD system The system (releases 0.0 and 0.1) was described in a series of 17 articles in [[Dr. D
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  • ...is the common basis for all AT&T Unix ([[UNIX System III|SYSIII]], [[UNIX System V|SYSV]]), and all of the 32bit BSD releases. This release is intended for system developers and others who wish to
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  • '''Top''' is a system [[process]] monitor. The cool thing about top is that it can display stats Top displays the top 15 processes on the system and periodi-
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  • | caption = Logging into a 4.3 BSD system For its age, a surprisingly lot runs on this 4.3BSD derived operating system. So far I've been able to build and run the following:
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  • | caption = Logging into a 4.3 BSD Uwisc system
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  • | caption = Logging into a 4.3 BSD system ...ecific code, there by allowing 4.3 BSD to become a more portable operating system.
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  • | caption = Logging into a 4.3 BSD system sites with UNIX/32V, System III, or System V source licenses
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  • | caption = Logging into a 4.3 BSD system
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  • | caption = Logging into a TROPIX system ...sion 7]] [[Motorola 68000]] machine, they were able to clone out their own system. For a while the project seemed dead with the mainstream arrival of Linux,
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  • .../IP is the most popular networking protocol suite of all time. [[Operating system|OSs]] and platforms that support TCP/IP are now basically ubiquitous, inclu ...- and configure the client's [[router]] - and will also add [[Domain Name System|DNS]] information. PPP also included VJ header compression support, while
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  • ...ed by IBM midrange [[AS/400]]'s and mainframe [[IBM System/370|370]]/[[IBM System/390|390]]'s to communicate over a [[LAN]] to [[FEP]]'s and other networked
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  • | caption = Booting up the 86-DOS system ...or an [[Intel 8086|8086]] [[co-processor]] to execute the 86-DOS Operating System.
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  • The TROPIX (pronounced "trópix") is an Operating System of 32 MOTOROLA 68010/20 processor. Since its beginning, the system was
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  • ''Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the new 64-bit z/Architecture That's right! Get a [[System/360]], [[System/370]] or [[System/390]] emulator on your home PC!
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  • ...stems—the first released in 1978 as a [[word processor|word processing]] system, and the latter (more widely known) two both released in 1989. These compri
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  • ...discontinued = June, 1985 (discontinuation decision); October, 2000 (last system shut down) ...[[time-sharing]] [[operating system]] which has influenced every operating system created since; especially via [[UNIX]] (the name of which is a play on 'Mul
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  • '''Qemu''' is a machine emulator & system virtualizer. ...d disk with qemu-img. Once your disk is ready then you can configure each system emulator with various flags.
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  • I've found that you really need four key things for a good Qemu Windows 95 system: md system
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  • Performing normal system tests. ULTRIX V4.0 (Rev. 160) System #3: Thu Apr 5 08:42:35 EDT 1990
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  • qemu-system-i386 -hda msdos.disk -m 64 -L . -fda dos622_1.img -boot a qemu-system-i386 -hda msdos.disk -m 64 -L .
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  • ....com/install/WindowsNT4.0-MIPS/emulator/qemu-system-mips64el-12.3.zip qemu-system-mips64el-12.3.zip] <pre>qemu-system-mips64el.exe -hda nt4.disk -M magnum -L . -net nic -net user -cdrom winnt40
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  • They were equipped with a NCR 53C94 fast/narrow [[Small Computer System Interface|SCSI]] [[chipset]]. ...ISC workstations that were supported by Windows NT all needed a [[FAT file system]] [[partition]], in which the bootstrap loader was stored.
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  • ...bit MS-DOS & Windows binaries with an improved 32bit OS/2 API & Windowing system. Microsoft hired Dave Cutler away from [[Digital]] to help with the implem ...ixes Rtl, Zw, and Nt. The Win32 API is considered it's primary API as the system services, security & console are all win32 applications.
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  • Windows NT[TM] operating system version 3.1 compatibility testing system. If your computer or device is not listed below, contact the
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  • ...Virtual PC was built for playing legacy video games under new [[operating system]]s, Hence the SoundBlaster 16 support. However once Microsoft realized that
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  • ...ows 95''' was [[Microsoft]]'s first consumer hybrid 32-[[bit]] [[operating system]]. While many of its internals were 16-bit, and a significant amount of it ...he time Windows 95 was first released, it was limited to the FAT 16 [[file system]], so [[partition]]s could not go beyond 2 gigabytes. OSR2 added support f
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  • ...' version of [[Windows NT]], and there was no 'consumer' Win32 [[operating system]] at the time.
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  • Further work went into the [[OSKit]], a modular system to build kernels. Some of the [[operating system]]s that used Mach were [[NeXTSTEP]]/[[OPENSTEP]], [[Mach386]] & [[OSF/1]].
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  • Doom was written in [[C (language)|C]], on the [[NeXTSTEP]] Operating system, and ported to [[MS-DOS]] with the [[Watcom C]] compiler. It was built as
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  • An '''operating system''' (often abbreviated to '''OS''') is a [[program]] (or set of programs) wh ...y did was to hide the low-level details of the [[device]]s attached to the system, so that users could use them by specifying higher-level operations (e.g. '
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  • ...could allow accelerators, hard disks, scsi ports (etc) to be added to the system in a 'side car' like expansion. == The Operating System ==
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  • ...per second. Thus [[flow control]] was essential unless working with a slow system (e.g. an old [[minicomputer]]..). Xon/Xoff was the most common method for f
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  • ...A complete virtual machine cosists of a 386 DX microprocessor hardware and system software. The emulation of an 8086 processor is the result of software usin ...not supported by the hardware and is not emulated, or write over operating system code).
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  • ...the lead to tell IBM that they had been working on a CP/M 'like' Operating system, and would sell it to IBM very cheaply on the condition that they could als
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  • ProDOS was an Operating System for the [[Apple II]] line of computers. The Apple IIe was already on the market when the new operating system (replacing DOS 3.3) was introduced. ProdDOS was up to eight times faster at
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  • ...original system, was designated a 'GE-265'). The [[Dartmouth Time Sharing System]], where BASIC was greatly improved, ran on the later [[GE-635]].
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  • ...X]] version derived from [[Unix/32V]], including a real [[virtual memory]] system * [[4.1 BSD]] - These were mostly betas testing new [[file system]]s & the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol]].
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  • ..., beginning in the 1980s; the name was also given to the later [[operating system]]s (NT, etc).
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  • ...given widespread release with the inclusion in the [[4.2 BSD]] [[operating system]].
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  • the Windows NT operating system, or that require a device driver supplied Austin Power System 60
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  • ...follow along from the guide [[Setting Up Version 1.0 of UNIX/32V Operating System]]
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  • == Setting Up Version 1.0 of Unix/32V Operating System == The tape contains binary images of the system and all the user level programs, along with source and manual sections fo
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  • A UNIX™ Operating System for the [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[VAX-11/780]] Computer ...780 computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation. The VAX-11/780 system provides 32-bit addresses and data. It uses the same input/output devices a
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  • ...S-DOS applications a full 640 K of address space, depending upon the total system memory. ...Microsoft Windows 2.0 and the Presentation Manager in Microsoft Operating System/2 (MS OS/2)(Note).
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  • ...] programming language, and is available for a wide variety of [[operating system]]s.
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  • DH0: is an OFS (old file system) partition that has roughly 880K on it. Say you had a system like this:
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  • ...was dying, and it was time for Geos to transition to new platforms. A new system was written in assembler that used the Motif look & feel to give the [[IBM ...ll amount of time Geos was bundled with lower end systems, as it had a low system requirements. However their delays in giving out a developer SDK doomed th
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  • This was a port of System V r2 to the [[i286]] cpu. The material is dated 1987. The system was distributed in various sections.
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  • Dell UNIX System V Release 1.x (1988-1989) ...iprocessor and/or i860, some form of UNIX was the only realistic operating system. So Glenn started a UNIX development project, partly with some sharp “old
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  • | caption = Logging into a SYSIII system | name = System III
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  • UNIBUS<sup>1</sup> disks, but such tapes are inherently rather system specific, and will not be discussed here. The tape consists The tape contains binary images of the system and all
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  • file system: hp(0,0) Now we can go ahead and boot the system. Run the boot command from the = prompt, then you'll have to specify where
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  • '''RT-11''' was an [[operating system]] for the [[PDP-11]]. Overall it has a very [[OS/8]] feel to it. The [[file system]] is like that of OS/8 in that [[file]]s are stored contiguously on the [[d
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  • *http://www.headcrashers.org/comp/rx01/fortran-iv/fortran-iv-v021-objecttime-system.img The FORTRAN compiler can compile system-specific OPEN and CLOSE
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  • ...and expansion of a system very easy. Most used [[CP/M]] as the [[operating system]] on them.
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  • '''VM/370''' was the first [[operating system]] on the [[IBM System/370]] [[mainframe]] platform that supported [[virtual machine]]s. This was ...jones/proj/vm_reading/ibmrd2505M.pdf The Origin of the VM/370 Time-sharing System]
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  • 06:20:41 AUTO LOGON *** OPERATOR USERS = 001 BY SYSTEM DMKCKP960I SYSTEM WARM START DATA SAVED
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  • ...along with the AT that it would support the next generation of [[operating system]]s, [[OS/2]]. The AT was also able to run [[Xenix]], along with a special
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  • * [http://www.vaxhaven.com/images/0/01/EK-AXV11-UG-002.pdf LSI-11 Analog System User's Guide] (EK-AXV11-UG-002) - the KWV11-C is covered in Chapter 5
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  • ...as used to upgrade [[PDP-11/23]] systems. (Confusingly, no DEC 'PDP-11/xx' system is specified as using the KDJ11-A.)
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  • ...OGO. In order to utilize the PDP-11/45 for other tasks, a new timesharing system called [[SITS]] was implemented, and 11LOGO was ported to that. After that
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  • ...''' is a register name then the value of the register is obtained from the system header in '''corfil'''. The register names are those printed by the $r com On entry the following are set from the system header in the
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  • system device. The i-node becomes allocatable.
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  • '''Cu''' calls up another UNIX system, a terminal, or possibly a non-UNIX system. It manages an interactive conversation
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  • _f_i_l_e_s_y_s_t_e_m_s. If no file system is specified, the free space
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  • dump - incremental file system dump default file system is dumped to the default tape.
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  • icheck - file system storage consistency check _I_c_h_e_c_k examines a file system, builds a bit map of used
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  • '''Iostat''' delves into the system and reports certain statistics system is executing in user mode, in `nice' (background)
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  • a remote system, prefix '''person''' by the system name and exclamation mark (see '''uucp'''(1)).
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  • mkfs - construct a file system _M_k_f_s constructs a file system by writing on the special file
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  • mount, umount - mount and dismount file system _M_o_u_n_t announces to the system that a removable file system
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  • A file system may be specified.
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  • system process; 04: locked in memory (e.g. for physical in place of /_d_e_v/_k_m_e_m. This is used for postmortem system
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  • pstat - print system facts _P_s_t_a_t interprets the contents of certain system tables. If
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  • restor - incremental file system restore The tape is read and loaded into the file system specified in _a_r_g_u_m_e_n_t. This should not be done lightly (see
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  • sa, accton - system accounting on a large system /_u_s_r/_a_d_m/_a_c_c_t can grow by 100 blocks per
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  • Print the accumulated user and system times for
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  • in the system, and the time spent in execution of the command. Times are reported in sec
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  • system. The owner and mode are restored. If no
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  • system-name!pathname where `system-name' is taken from a list of system names
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  • If a part of _r_e_m_o_t_e-_n_a_m_e is omitted (either the system or needed at the remote system, and at present is only
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  • cute a command on a specified system and send standard out- put to a file on a specified system.
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  • Because the _w_a_i_t(2) system call must be executed in the
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  • who - who is on the system indicative of when the system went down.
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  • On power-on, the system is frozen (via negation of the BPOK QBUS signal) while the entire memory is
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  • ...struction of [[IBM-compatible PC|PCs]]. It was more popular for [[embedded system]]s due to its on-board hardware. However, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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  • ...lower range, [[Single Inline Memory Module|SIMM]] memory was used, and the system was carried in a desktop package. ...], [[KA680 CPU]], and [[KA690 CPU]] which all used the [[KA690 Main Memory System]], finishing off with the [[KA691 CPU]] and [[KA694 CPU]].
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  • All models of the series supported [[Small Computer System Interface|SCSI]] for [[mass storage]], as well as [[Ethernet]] and several ...chnical Journal|DTJ]], Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer 1992 (pp. 75-83 of the PDF; a system block diagram on pg. 78 of the PDF)
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  • === Install a Windows NT system partition === You'll need a Windows NT CD to now install a system partition. This is really simple. Just boot up Qemu like this:
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  • Build root file system Check the file system
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  • Build root file system Check the file system
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  • [[Operating system]]s that supported Alpha included [[VMS|OpenVMS]] (previously known as OpenV .../system_reference/Alpha_System_Reference_Manual_Version_5_199205.pdf Alpha System Reference Manual - Version 5]
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  • You will need the following to get a 386BSD system patched and installed: *A modern Linux system with iptables
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  • ...grammer? CP/M? God forbid -- CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP ...he system is through a keypunch. Some people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS/370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion
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  • ...ortran-iv/fortran-iv-v021-objecttime-system.img fortran-iv-v021-objecttime-system.img] system installation. LA36 DECwriter II and VT52 DECscope terminals
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  • .../8600/EK-8600I-S1-001_VAX_8600_System_Upgrade_Procedure_May86.pdf VAX 8600 System Upgrade Procedure] (EK-8600I-S1-001)
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