PDP7(1)

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✨ PDP7(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the PDP7(1) page, general commands manual edition 💖 sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

pdp7 — simulate a pdp7 computer

like. that's it. that's the whole job. she simulates a whole pdp7 computer and she's not even sorry about it. main character energy fr fr 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pdp7

no flags, no args, no drama. you literally just type pdp7 and the whole thing happens. iconic. no notes. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so this manual page documents the pdp7 command briefly — like, the speed-run version, the tl;dr, the "i have 30 seconds before class" recap. and there's a reason for that: this page was written for the Debian distribution, because the original program straight up does not have a manual page 😭. instead, it has documentation in various text files. see below. iykyk.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

bestie. i'm gonna hold your hand when i say this. for a complete description, see the text files. that's what the original says, that's what i'm telling you, no cap. the options live in the docs, not here. go read the docs. go. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the programs are documented fully by:

  • /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/pdp18b_doc.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/architecture18b.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/card_readers_18b.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/decsys.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_magtape.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_swre.pdf
not one, not two, but NINE pdfs. the way that this program just has a whole library instead of a manpage… obsessed. 📚✨

and one more thing: all documentation files are registered with the doc-base system. slay. 💖

⭐ 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, we appreciate you, king 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie! this was PDP7(1) from April 14, 2007 — yes, the date is literally older than both of us and she's still serving 🎀 stay hydrated, read your pdfs, and remember: no manual page, no problem 💜 🦋 🌸 🍓 🧚

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