This is the real source for DEVICE; OARCDV BIN, which uses the old
"ARC!!!" archive format. The previously reconstructed ARCDEV 66 can
be removed, and it was also the wrong version.
At the * prompt, type a file name and then Enter to load that file.
(Terminate with Altmode to first load the GT40LL "loader loader".
That file is currently missing.)
TVFIX stuffs the TV-11 and then tells ITS to start using it. 6FIX
tells ITS to start using the PDP-6.
They are intended to be used by linking CHANNA; RAHASH TVFIX or 6FIX
to SYS; TS LOCK.
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.
