its VS vmtouch

Compile ITS and just run :macsyma at the DDT prompt (shell/debugger) from ITS:

https://github.com/pdp-10/its

The syntax it's the same, I even made a plot and 'printed' into the host from an ARDS output from the plot command, by converting the file into PPM->PNG or PPM->PDF.

ITS didn't really have password control, one was technically added but IIRC it was a fig leaf on some requirement from outside MIT. The user accounts were there mostly to inform others who was logged on and who owned what process.

You could login either using terminal through ARPAnet dial-in support, or later over network, and over time there was added a more concrete "tourist" policy.

DonHopkins seems to have an interesting writeup https://donhopkins.medium.com/mit-ai-lab-tourist-policy-f73b...

and of course there's PDP-10 org and its gather docs on github: https://github.com/PDP-10/its

Terry and SHRDLU at 8:23 here: https://archive.org/details/what-about-tomorrow-on-the-side-...

See this for some more information: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/425#issuecomment-145588...

The Magic Switch (in reference to the More Magic, above)

Oops, URL should be https://github.com/PDP-10/its/pull/2150

For more info, see https://github.com/PDP-10/its/pull/2150

VMTouch may be helpful. https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/

Just lock the file into memory using:

```vmtouch -l /path/to/binary```

You're claiming that gnome loads all of itself into memory so that it can be faster. Now there are a few reasons why I don't think that's a reasonable idea, but assuming that you wanted that... using techniques like vmtouch to keep the files in the disk cache would make it so that gnome wasn't actually using the full 1GB. The "cached" files could be evicted from the cache if some other program needed that memory. Where as loading all of gnome in at startup regardless of whether it's actually used is probably not a good idea.

It is a mainstream thing. It's enabled by default on every Windows install, as far as I know, although you may not be impressed by its understanding of what your frequently opened programs are. It's been about ten years since I ran Windows, but I used to have a batch script to read everything in a directory so that it would be in the disk cache and subsequent accesses would come from RAM. The Linux equivalent of my script is vmtouch, although that's a lot more full-featured.

vmtouch: https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/

vmtouch.