Following on from Don Stalkowski's seminal work (SimH list 26th October 2019, and 28th March 2016 before that), I have tidied up his scripts, and added a few new features.
We now have the following on a 67MB disk: - Perkin-Elmer OS/32 v8.1. - Multi Terminal Monitor (MTM) with 8 terminal lines on port 1026. - Common Assembly Language (CAL) and macro assembler. - Fortran VII Development and Optimizing compilers. - Pascal compiler. - Whitesmiths C. - Program Development Ease of Use scripts (EOU). - Help files, installed as part of EOU. - Some convenient CSS scripts (DIR, COPY and TYPE) to complement the built-in commands. - A SEARCH command, written in C and CSS, to search files for a string. - A WILD command, to run a command over a bunch of files given by a wildcard pattern. - Two full screen editors, MEDIT and Micro EMACS are also on the system, but will need setting up before you can use them. - STARTUP and SHUTDOWN scripts. These go together with the SimH initialization file. - SimH initialization file automatically runs FASTCHEK after unclean shutdown. And also: - An FTP server running on port 2121 (POSIX systems only). More about that in a separate mail. - A jumbo package of bitsavers documents to which I have added PDF bookmarks. There are a few annoyances that suggest it is not quite release quality. - The EOU scripts (COMPILE, LINK, etc.) will lock up MTM (time-sharing) if you try to use them in more than one terminal. - You cannot signon to a terminal if anyone is using the EDIT command to edit a file. Your terminal will lock up! When the person saves his file, he will also lock up, and MTM needs restarting (type MTMDOWN at the system console, followed by MTMUP). - SimH idling helps to keep CPU usage reasonably low. But it tends to increase with time (>60%). Interestingly, if you stop MTM, CPU usage goes right down to single digits as idling picks up again. If anyone knows what is happening or how to fix it, that would make a big difference. But despite these annoyances, I believe we've got quite a usable system. I encourage everyone to give it a try. It's quite fun, once you get over the initial bewilderment. ZIP files can be found here: Source (160K): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_9P6hOy_ViHNBDJPcWarRBWy-NWIBCPW Binary (11M): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wxYwIquzRtDaKdsNtbCCyQiGxxzILvme PDF documents (104M): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bIG9L6sbqnIZ54QdnpQomjwdLk6UZyh0 David.
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