Retrieved from <http://web.onetel.net.uk/~hibou/ITSter.txt>. Earlier
versions are in SV: HIBOU; -- I've given this version 186 because it's
identical to version 185 (dated 2002-03-13) except for a change of name.
Written by Paul Svensson, who gave permission in 2017 to include this
with DB ITS.
Source from SV: HACK; WEBSER 19, dated 2003-05-15. Build XFILE from SV:
HACK; MAKE WEBSER, dated 2011-07-09.
Jack Haverty wrote on its-hackers:
> On MIT-DM, the most commonly used top-level program was called
> "monit". It was used by most people instead of DDT because it required
> less memory, which was a very scarce and precious commodity in the
> early 70s before paging and swapping. In fact there was a lot of peer
> pressure to use monit unless you had a very good reason to use DDT.
This is a very old source file -- AI: SYSENG; MONIT 114 is listed in
MAPS in 1971-04. Development happened on DM; "Scenarios for Using
Arpanet at the International Conference on Computer Communication" has a
1972-09 transcript showing MONIT 192 on DM.
The binary SYS; TS MONIT is listed on AI, MC and ML from 1971 to 1983 in
MAPS, although it doesn't survive in the AI/MC KS10 dumps. A 1981
message to BUG-ITS from ED@MIT-ML suggests it was an old version:
> ML:SYS;TS MONIT [...] does not have symbols nor the correct start
> address (1300). It is pretty badly broken, but great fun to play with
> nevertheless.
This is a standalone program using the PDP-6 Microtape device.
The source code has been fixed to assemble with the current version of
MIDAS. Double !s are needed to get the concatenation right. Also,
garbage at the end was removed.
File created 01:26:31, July 12, 1976. Printed XGP listing dated
19:54:34 07/30/76, from Alan Snyder. Transcribed by Fausto Saporito
in 2018. Checked against @ listing by Adam Sampson.
To use this, add (CMDS) to the sname search list. Then make a
translation from DSK: (CMDS); TS * to DSK: SYS3; TS CMD. Add a file
<HSNAME>; <XUNAME> (CMDS) where each subroutine is one line for the
subroutine name, followed by a body of commands terminated by a ^_
control character.
This program reads files in several printable formats including ARDS,
XGP and PLT, and rasterises them for Versatec V80 and Gould 5200
printers, or as "Harvard scan" RLE bitmap files.
Normally it runs as a printer spooler, scanning the .GLPR. directory.
When invoked as VERSA, it runs in a test mode where it opens a fixed
series of files and displays them interactively using SUPDUP graphics.
The latter is more useful at the moment, so don't install the CHANNA
link by default.
