I1401(1)

💖 I1401 — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual for i1401, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and yes it's giving "I have a whole vintage mainframe in my terminal" energy and I am OBSESSED. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

i1401 — simulate an IBM 1401 computer 💅

like. an actual IBM 1401. in your terminal. no cap. iconic behavior from a machine older than everyone's grandparents. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

i1401

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, just run it. 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so real talk: this manual page documents i1401 briefly. like, briefly briefly. 🦋

and here's the tea — this page exists for the Debian distribution specifically, because the original program does not have a manual page. not one. zero. instead it has documentation in various text files. see below. 😭

so if you came here expecting a big juicy explanation of how to drive this thing… bestie, the text files are where the lore lives. this page is basically the little "be right back" sticky note. 💌

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

for a complete description, see the text files. 📄

that's the entire options section. I know. I KNOW. but we do not invent flags that aren't there — that's a whole cardinal sin and we don't do that here. 🙈

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the programs are documented fully by these, and I mean fully — go read them, they're the main characters: 🌈

• /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/i1401_doc.pdf
• /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_magtape.pdf
• /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_swre.pdf

and a lil PSA: all documentation files are registered with the doc-base system. so they're findable, they're official, they're ✨certified✨. don't sleep on doc-base, fr fr.

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

this manual page was written by Vince Mulhollon <vlm@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but may be used by others. 🫶 so like, share the love, it's allowed. 💜

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and that's the whole page!! 💖 this gem is from the General Commands Manual, April 14, 2007, and it ate. periodt. 🎀✨🦋🌸💅