PDP8(1)

📦 version 3.8.1, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 pdp8 — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual page for pdp8, from the General Commands Manual section of the docs. pull up a chair, we're gonna talk about simulating a whole entire PDP-8 computer, no cap 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

pdp8 — simulate a pdp8 computer 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pdp8

that's it. that's the whole vibe. she takes no arguments, she just exists 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so real talk, this manual page is the brief version — like, the sparknotes of the pdp8 command. it documents the pdp8 command briefly and that's genuinely it, i'm not gatekeeping 😭

the way that this page came to be is kinda iconic actually: it was written for the Debian distribution specifically because the original program does not have a manual page. not even one. the original program said "i'm not doing that" and instead put its documentation into various text files. see below for those, bestie, i gotchu 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

there are no options listed here, and no, i'm not hiding them from you. for a complete description, see the text files. that's the official answer fr fr. go read the text files. iykyk ✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the programs are documented fully by these, so like, this is where the real lore lives:

  • /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/pdp8_doc.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_magtape.pdf
  • /usr/share/doc/simh/simh_swre.pdf

alsooo, all documentation files are registered with the doc-base system. so they're findable. they're catalogued. they're living their best organized lives 📚✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Vince Mulhollon <vlm@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but (and this is the sweet part) it may be used by others. sharing is caring, periodt 💖

and that's the whole page bestie!! that's it, we're done, you're officially a pdp8 understander 🌈⭐

cute little sign-off from the footer: this page belongs to the PDP8(1) manual and it's dated April 14, 2007. vintage. iconic. timeless. 🎀💀

mwah, go simulate a pdp8, you got this 💅

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