DEC-T9-MTZA-D PDP-10 Timesharing Monitors Programmers Ref 106908

This document is a Programmer's Reference Manual for the PDP-10 Time-Sharing Monitors, specifically covering the Multiprogramming Disk Monitor (10/40), Multiprogramming Nondisk Monitor (10/40), and Swapping Monitor (10/50).

Published by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and last revised in August 1969, the manual guides programmers on:

• Monitor Functions and User Facilities: How users access the system, allocate resources, and operate programs.
• Monitor Commands: Detailed descriptions of commands for console control, job management (e.g., LOGIN, RUN, SAVE, KJOB, ASSIGN), debugging (DDT), and system timing.
• Loading User Programs: Information on memory protection, core storage, job data areas, and loading binary files.
• User Programming: Extensive details on user mode, programmed operators (UUOs), program control (starting, stopping, trapping), timing, identification, and direct input/output programming, including file management and various data modes.
• Device-Dependent Functions: Specific operational characteristics for standard I/O devices like Teletypes, paper tape readers/punches, line printers, card readers/punches, DECtapes, magnetic tapes, disks, incremental plotters, and displays.
• Addenda: Information on the Concise Command Language (CCL) and Re-entrant User Capability for the PDP-10 Time Sharing System.