[TUHS] Scan of "Edition 0" manual
    John Cowan 
    cowan at mercury.ccil.org
       
    Mon Nov 30 14:02:44 AEST 2015
    
    
  
Warren Toomey scripsit:
> It's certainly an interesting read. 
Some things that strike me particularly:
- the presence of only one execute bit (a file is either executable or
it isn't!)
- the "@" prompt of the shell
- the blocked paper tape driver
- the fact that ^\ causes an arbitrary non-shell process to core dump
if several are running and DEL (aka ^C) does not exist yet
- the fact that switches don't yet exist (and indeed when passing files
to the B interpreter one must precede them with a hyphen)
I also note the marginal "NO!" next to the statement that the second
argument to 'creat' is the file mode.  I wonder what that was about.
-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
"Make a case, man; you're full of naked assertions, just like Nietzsche."
"Oh, i suffer from that, too.  But you know, naked assertions or GTFO."
                        --heard on #scheme, sorta
    
    
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