disk file. Then on restart, that script will reload that saved state if
it finds the saved state file.

This is not identical to a KP8-I, in that it doesn’t require any
user-written PDP-8 code to run, which is why it’s optional: it’s
ahistoric with respect to the way the included OSes normally ran.

Ideally, the default mode of operation would save the core memory state
only and would reload only that on start. You can make do that by
halting the CPU and resetting the saved registers after the `RESTORE`

command in each bootscript you want to affect:

    EVAL HLT
    DEP L 0
    DEP AC 0
    DEP DF 0
    DEP IF 0
    DEP MQ 0

disk file. Then on restart, that script will reload that saved state if
it finds the saved state file.

This is not identical to a KP8-I, in that it doesn’t require any
user-written PDP-8 code to run, which is why it’s optional: it’s
ahistoric with respect to the way the included OSes normally ran.

In absence of a hardware option like the KP8-I, a more accurate
simulation would only save the core memory state to a host-side disk
file and reload it on simulator re-start. You can get that behavior atop
the current mechanism by adding commands like the following to each
bootscript you want to affect:

    EVAL HLT
    DEP L 0
    DEP AC 0
    DEP DF 0
    DEP IF 0
    DEP MQ 0