10 Mar
2019
10 Mar
'19
4:48 p.m.
Hi.
On 2019-03-10 16:40, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
Ah. Great.
TOPS-20 is really cool, but it's hard to sum up like this. But all the
manuals are around...
Johnny
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|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Hum... The
Panda release would be MRCs stuff. Wasn't that for the KS?
Maybe I'm misremembering. MRC did play with KLH10 as well, I seem to
remember.
Yup - found it at http://panda.trailing-edge.com/ It appears he is not with us any more, sad to have
read that. You guys
must have known him personally.
Yeah, sad. Quite a few years now. I never met him in person, as he lived
in Seattle, and I never came around to there until just a few years ago.
But we had lots of mail exchanges over the years.
Anyway, some folks ported it to the Raspberry Pi -
Posted by Jordi
Guillaumes Pons' post is awesome, as is this one I don't know who wrote
this: http://www.ldx.ca/notes/tops-20-notes.html
Cool.
As far as
basics of TOPS-20 goes... Wow. That could be a big subject.
Make sure you have an account with the WHEEL bit set. Then enable the
privileged commands (it was either ENABLE or ^E ENABLE). After that,
you could go into OPR to start fooling around with operator stuff.
?From OPR, you can then get into NCP for DECnet stuff, for example.
Awesome - every bit helps; am learning fast! Thanks Johnny.