Tyop

From: D. Peschel <dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu Aug 13 16:13:15 1998

> 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 .;_at_ 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 .;_at_ 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
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