On Friday, November 4, 2011 at 21:49, Ron Hudson wrote: > I also remember if one entered the command "why" on the terminal the OS > would reply with "Why not?" > > What OS was I probably running?
You were definitely running DOS-III (the only HP OS that had a WHY command). Have a look through: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/1000/DOS-III/24307-90006_Feb-1975.pdf ...particularly Section II, "DOS-III Directives," and see if it looks familiar. (The WHY directive was undocumented. :-) > Can I run that same OS under SIMH? Yes: HP 2100 simulator V3.8-1 HALT instruction 102077, P: 02020 (CLC 0,C) sim> go INPUT :DATE,XXXXXXXXXX,H,M @:DATE,05-NOV-11,13,46 SUBCHAN=01 LBL=SYSTEM DISC GEN CODE 1503 NOT SYS GEN CODE 2575 ERR POSS @ :JOB,DAVE JOB DAVE 05-NOV-11 TIME=0826 MIN. 15.2 SECS. @ :WHY WHY NOT? @ :EJOB END JOB DAVE RUN=0000 MIN. 44.0 SEC. EXEC=0000 MIN. 00.0 SEC. @ > If so where can I get it? I'll work on getting a DOS-III disc image to Bitsavers for posting. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
