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<A title=vince@mulhollon.com href="mailto:vince@mulhollon.com">Vince
Mulhollon</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=simh@trailing-edge.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, June 25, 2017 3:26 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Simh] OS/8</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Bill Cunningham <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:billcun@suddenlink.net"
target=_blank>billcun@suddenlink.net</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> One thing I have noticed in
simh's software kits repository, si that the OS/8 there doesn't seem to have
any simh loading or preparation instructions for
OS/8.</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Find "OS/8 system reference manual" from bitsavers or whatever. The
1973 edition. AKA document name DEC-S8-OSRMA-A-D<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Starts right off with bootstrapping your OS/8 from papertape. (also
instructions for disk and dectape)<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I've always meant to implement this in my infinite spare time as TCL
Expect macros to automate an install for testing and general messing
around.<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Load RIM BIN. Then a papertape of ODT I guess (A little fuzzy
here). Then you pick 1 of 3 device driver tapes (RK RF DF) and load that
dude up. Then load up the command decoder tape. So three tapes
total. Then run at 0200 and that writes command decoder and ODT to the
disk and gives you the famous . prompt. Then you spend some time with
ABSLDR, which boils down to R ABSLDR, load up PAL8 or whatever tape, then SAVE
SYS PAL8 and repeat until you're all loaded up.<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The instructions are a bit vague in the intro "bootstraping OS8" at the
start of the book. Toward the middle there is a detailed man page for
ABSLDR.<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>You've probably seen appendix A an exhaustive explanation of RIM and BIN
loader, perhaps as just an abstracted part.<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Its a tolerable good manual. I've read worse.
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<P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks much Vince. I have downloaded the 1974
manual in pdf. But only glanced through yesterday. I will look at bitsavers
again.</FONT>
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<P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Bill</FONT>
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