On 8/26/21 7:16 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: / printer / cpu setup wasn't too hard to run. > > Run assembler if you want to study for a while.
Back in the day, you knew that you'd arrived when you could mentally assemble a one-liner console program and type it in without resorting to pencil and paper... But yes, IIRC, there's a one-card/one-line boot loader for Monitor--you can't boot directly from disk. The loader specifies where Monitor is and where input will be coming from (card, paper tape, console). One thing that throws a lot of folks is how primitive the disk monitor system is--there are no files, per se--just permanently-assigned disk locations for various things. Back in the day, I used to store some of my work on the last couple of cylinders in the work cylinders. Very often, in spite of the system being used by others most of the time I could recover my data. Like I said, it's not the same under simulation. But that can be said for just about any old machine. I doubt that running an LGP-30 simulation is anything like running on a real LGP-30. --Chuck