Just for the heck of it…
I did make nova in Open Simh
Got the RDOS disk image, here. I assume this is probably a very common OS for DG Nova users to run. However it’s not the OS that my company ran on our DG Nova 3. We ran a very obscure OS called Blis/COBOL. I’ve talked about this before.. an OS, written in COBOL!
Found some simh usage info, here.
And here we are…
bill@bill-MS-7B79:~/Downloads/Computers/Emulation/simh/Nova/rdosswre$ ./nova dgnova.ini
NOVA simulator Open SIMH V4.1-0 Current simh git commit id: ffe537a6
Filename? <CR>
NOVA RDOS Rev 7.50
Date (m/d/y) ? 1/1/75
Time (h:m:s) ? 0:0:0
R
GTOD
01/01/75 00:03:17
R
RELEASE DP0
MASTER DEVICE RELEASED
<Ctrl-E>
HALT instruction, PC: 00001 (INC 2,2)
sim> quit
Goodbye
bill@bill-MS-7B79:~/Downloads/Computers/Emulation/simh/Nova/rdosswre$