PDP11(1)

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💖 PDP11(1) — the pdp11 glow-up 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual ✨ this is the lil corner of the docs where pdp11 lives, and we're gonna talk about it. sit down, grab a snack, it's giving retro-computer-girlie energy 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pdp11 — simulate a pdp11 computer 🖥️💫

like. she literally pretends to be a whole entire PDP-11. iconic behavior, no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pdp11

that's it. that's the whole vibe. just run her 🫶

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so this manual page is a brief lil intro to the pdp11 command — like a meet-cute, not the whole love story. 💕

and here's the tea: this page was written for the Debian distribution specifically, because the original program literally does not have a manual page. not one. zero. nada. 🙈 instead, it keeps its documentation in various text files — peep the section below for the receipts, bestie. ⬇️

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

for a complete description, see the text files. 📚

yes that's really all it says here. this page is a short king. the real lore lives in the docs down below. 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the programs are documented fully by these beauties — go read them, they ate fr fr:

  • /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/pdp11_doc.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/pdp11interrupts.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/ucode_bugs.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_magtape.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_swre.pdf

alsoooo, all documentation files are registered with the doc-base system ✨ so they're not just floating around, they're official. 💅

💌 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 to Vince, we love a documentation king. 👑

🌈 that's a wrap 🌈

so yeah, that's pdp11. short page, big legacy, main character energy all around. ⭐

little sign-off moment: this page is tagged PDP11(1), dated April 14, 2007 🎂 — old enough to be vintage, still serving looks. mwah. 💋

stay curious, read your docs, and remember: simulating a whole 1970s minicomputer is lowkey the slay of the century. 🦋✨💖

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