I guess I need to post this because I keep losing it. It was a great book the best I remember. It was about the Data General Eclipse MV/8000 computer, Data General built. It won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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Controlling the ship in spcwar on the PDP-10
SpaceWar is actually my primary interest in the ITS on the PDP-10. I talk more about it here. I don’t have much interest in doing actual work on this obscure OS. I asked the PiDP-10 google group, if anyone knew how to play spacwar running in ITS. And Lars Brinkhoff replied “To play Spacewar, you …
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Running spcwar on ITS
My computer started beeping
I actually fell asleep at the keyboard, and was awakened by beeping. Went to all my virtual desktops and didn’t see anything running. I closed my browser because I wondered if it might be coming from one of the tabs. That didn’t help. I almost re-booted. Decided to look at running processes and saw gnome-clocks. …
ITS – directory
ITS – programming
:cwd hello:lf Looks like these are the options. :print hello for
ITS – thinking of making a video
I can’t think of anyone less qualified or knowledgeable than me about the PDP-10 OS… ITS. Then why make a video about it? Maybe because I’m stupid. But I found the instructions unclear and confusing. For example, creating a user directory. I’m told… Turns out it’s the second one. OK, I assume I replace NAME …
Aquatic Ambience
I heard this music combined with old videos from the past, on Instagram. And I immediately thought that it really did evoke a sense of nostalgia and sadness. Luckily someone in the comments said the name… Aquatic Ambience. So I looked it up on YouTube and even without old videos the comments were almost all …
Very annoying YouTube behavior
This has happened for a long time. If I see a video on my main suggestion page, I always right click and open link in new tab. But occasionally it will also open it in my main YouTube home suggestion page. The main problem with this is if I click the back button (not the …
DG Nova emulator
Here! Lot of manuals also. Nice site in general for DG Novas.