OS8(1)

💖 OS8(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the os8 page, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and she is short and sweet but she matters ✨

✨ NAME ✨

os8 — boots os8 images via simh pdp8 emulator 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

os8

that's it. no flags, no args, no drama. she just goes. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so the os8 script does two main character things, in order, no notes:

1. it preps a bootable OS8 system in whatever directory you happened to run it in 🫶
2. then it boots that OS8 system using the SIMH pdp8 emulator 🔥

and here's the little detail that's lowkey important: if the "system disks" or the pdp config file aren't already there, it copies them from /usr/share/os8 straight into your current directory. no cap, it just does that for you. 💖

after that? it starts the pdp8 emulator using the os8 config file. and that's the whole vibe. 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Vince Mulhollon <vlm@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but bestie, it may be used by others too 💜

and that's the page, fr fr 🍓 written for the Debian GNU/Linux system, dated August 30, 2002 — yes she's an icon, she's been iconic since 2002, and she's still serving ✨💅🎀