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TSS/8 System Manager's Guide for the PDP-8/I Time-Sharing System
| Company: | Digital Equipment Corporation |
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| Date: | 1971-07 |
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Table of Contents
- Part One Operating TSS/8
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Use of This Manual
- 1.2 Planning a TSS/8 Installation
- 1.2.1 Size
- 1.2.2 Power Requirements
- 1.2.3 Teletypes, Dataphones, and Cables
- 1.2.4 Environment
- Chapter 2 Building a TSS/8 System
- 2.1 Initializing the System
- 2.1.1 Read-In Mode (RIM) Loader
- 2.1.2 Binary (BIN) Loader
- 2.2 Loading Monitor
- 2.3 Refreshing the Disk and Starting the System
- 2.4 Building the System Library
- 2.4.1 Logging In
- 2.4.2 Loading System Programs from Paper Tape with PIP
- 2.4.3 Loading System Programs from DECtape with COPY
- 2.5 Defining Account Numbers and Passwords
- 2.6 General Instructions for Dumping Disks to DECtape
- Chapter 3 Operating the TSS/8 System
- 3.1 Loading the System
- 3.2 Starting System
- 3.3 Restarting the System
- 3.4 System Backup
- 3.5 Passwords and Accounting
- 3.6 Maintaining the System Library
- 3.7 Assignable Devices
- 3.8 Controlling Disk Usage
- 3.9 Controlling System Users
- 3.10 Communicating With Users
- 3.11 Special IOTs
- Chapter 4 Modifying TSS/8
- 4.1 Modifying System Library Programs
- 4.2 Modifying TSS/8 Monitor
- 4.3 Controlling Monitor Execution
- Part Two TSS/8 Monitor
- Chapter 5 Introduction and Basic Execution of User Programs
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 An Outline of the System
- 5.3 Sharing Time
- 5.4 Some Definitions
- 5.5 Talking to the User Program
- Chapter 6 Monitor: A More Detailed Look
- 6.1 Monitor as Interrupt Handler
- 6.2 I/O Wait Condition
- 6.3 Other Parts of Monitor
- 6.4 The Monitor Data Base
- Chapter 7 System Storage and Communication
- 7.1 Talking to the System
- 7.2 Disk Storage and Files
- 7.3 Talking to the Disk: The File Phantom
- 7.4 Disk Transfers
- 7.5 Assignable Devices
- 7.6 Error Handling
- Chapter 8 Details of Monitor's Data Base
- 8.1 Input/Output Data Base
- 8.2 User Program Status
- 8.3 Monitor Scheduling Data Base
- 8.4 Disk File Data Base
- 8.5 File Phantom Data Base
- Appendix A TSS/8 Character Set
- Appendix B Building a TSS/8 System from Paper Tape
- Appendix C Building a TSS/8 System from DECtape
- Appendix D TSS/8 Hardware Configurations
- Appendix E Required Modifications