Bob Supnik's PDP-11 Emulator

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Thu Aug 27 15:36:41 1998

At 04:04 PM 8/27/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>I've sometimes wished there were more FAQs and tutorials for
>>emulators like this. For that matter, for the preservation of
>>any old machine... so much knowledge isn't written down, much
>>less on the web.
>
>AFAIK, just about everything about the -11 and the DEC software that
>users might run on it is written down. I moved several thousand
>pounds of such documentation in my last big move, and that was
>even after pruning it down to only the most essential stuff!

Bad choice of words on my part. I meant it wasn't in electronic
form. As you point out, it's tempting to toss the docs because
of their bulk, and has others have shown on this list, the docs
are the first thing to have disappeared when they come to
rescue a system.

Someone mentioned the old DEC fiches, and Megan (gee, only the
most famous are known by their first names) said something
about the way they were produced with specially formatted text
that printed direct to fiche film. Has DEC liberated these
docs in pure electronic text form, or even RUNOFF form, or
whatever system they used to typeset the original docs?

- John
Received on Thu Aug 27 1998 - 15:36:41 BST

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