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Table of Contents
This is a collection of user contributed tutorials for TWENEX.ORG. While these tutorials may contain specific information to TWENEX.ORG, they may also be general enough such that other TOPS-20 and TOPS-20 PANDA Distribution users could benefit from them. Access to this WIKI is available by MAILing or SENDing a message to SMJ on TWENEX.ORG.
TOPS-20 Tutorials
TWENEX.ORG Basics
- howto Authoring tutorials, style guidelines, et cetera
- access Getting and accessing your own TOPS-20 account on TWENEX.ORG
- starter A starter guide to TOPS-20 aimed at UNIX users
- EXEC Using EXEC—the TOPS-20 command parser, and TOPS-20 command files
- batch Running background tasks without user interaction according to schedule
E-Mail and Communication
- advise ADVISE another's TTY
- commode A simple remark chat using linked TTYs
- bboard Shared MAIL folder which acts as a Bulletin Board
- mm Reading and Sending MAIL via Mail Manager
- send SENDing and REPLYing to TOPS-20 Instant Message
- talk Linking TTYs together
- network Internet (TCP/IP) and DECnet communication options
Languages and Programming
- Compilers General notes on compiling source code on TOPS-20
- Assemblers General notes on PDP-10 assembly language programming
- AID Using Algebraic Interpretive Dialog
- APL Using the APLSF interpreter
- BASIC Using BASIC
- C Using the KCC C compiler
- FORTH Using the FORTH interpreters
- FORTRAN Using the FORTRAN-20 compiler
- Lisp Accessing and using LISP
- MACRO Using TOPS-20 MACRO assembly language
- MDL Muddling with the MDL programming language
- MIDAS Using MIDAS assembly language
- FAIL Using FAIL assembly language
- SNOBOL Using SNOBOL on TWENEX.ORG
Text Editors
- Default editor Invoking your default editor (CREATE/EDIT)
- EDIT Using the EDIT text editor
- EDT-20 Using the EDT-20 text editor
- Emacs Using the Emacs text editor
- TECO Using the TECO and Video TECO (TV) text editors
(The editor SED is also listed in @HELP NEW-USER, but the executable file is corrupt and inoperative.)
Games
- Haunt A haunted house text adventure game programmed by John Laird in 1979 using the rule-based language OPS4.
- Star Trek (Space War) The text-based strategy game inspired by the television series Star Trek popular on minicomputers, mainframes, and early PCs in the 1970s and -80s.
- Zork “The classic underground maze/puzzle.”
References and External Links
- interlisp Some references to the interlisp programming language that we have here on twenex
- PDP-10 bitsavers.org DEC PDP-10 documentation archive
- Wikidata item: TOPS-20
- Tutorial de TOPS-20 en Español de TWENEX.ORGTOPS-20 Tutorial (in Spanish)
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