NOVA(1)

💖 NOVA(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a General Commands Manual page for nova — well, sort of. Buckle up, it's short but it has LORE. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

dgnova — simulate a Data General Nova computer 💻✨

like, it's an emulator. it pretends to be a whole vintage computer. iconic behaviour honestly. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dgnova

that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no args, no drama. she just runs. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so this manual page documents the dgnova command briefly — and the reason it's brief is genuinely kind of funny: this page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page at all. 😭 instead, it keeps its documentation in various text files; see below, babe, I got you. 👇

also, tea time ☕: this emulator was renamed in 2011 because of an executable name collision. it was formerly known as nova. so if you see nova floating around in old docs, that's her. she rebranded. rebrand era. 💅✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

ngl, there's nothing here in the traditional sense. for a complete description, see the text files. that's the official word, and I'm not gonna make stuff up. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the programs are documented fully by these, and yes, all of them, I'm listing every single one because we do not skip. periodt. 📚

• /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_doc.pdf
• /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_faq.pdf
• /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_breakpoints.pdf
• /usr/share/doc/simh/nova_doc.pdf
• /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_magtape.pdf
• /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_swre.pdf

✨ fun fact bestie: all documentation files are registered with the doc-base system. fancy. 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Vince Mulhollon <vlm@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout Vince, absolute legend, wrote the page the original program never had. 🫶🌸

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie. this page comes to you from the NOVA(1) manual, dated July 6, 2011 — a little time capsule, still slaying. 💖✨🎀🦋