Wow, RSX-11M? I haven't used that in a quarter-century. Gary Unruh and I wrote a 3GL for it that kept a big roomful of data entry gals happy on a PDP 11/70 with 2 MEGAbytes of memory. I even cobbled up a clock card for it so I could run 45.45 baud and copied the 20 meter RTTY autostart net at the same time. I think I still have a copy of my Baudot to ASCII converter assembler program and the custom card. I got pretty nervous changing the wirewrap on that expensive CPU in order to get access to my oddball clock card. I think it was 150 baud that I hacked to 45.45 baud. Gary, a veteran IBMer, was my mentor. What a guy, brilliant!
I loved the way it kept the old versions of your files and you could purge /Keep ;2 to delete everything but the current version and one previous copy when disc space got tight. I used to have to key the bootstrap loader program on the console switches in binary to start it. I think I still remember the program. Somehow I don't think the DEC 11/70 would be fast enough to do the DSP. Any HP MPE fans here? Now there was an intuitive system. Too bad the cryptic UNIX killed it. I loved HP's TurboImage. That was a bulletproof database. It was lightning fast, if you kept up on DB maintenance. In a decade, I only lost one morning's worth of data to a crash. This was before RAID. I remember one day realizing that I hadn't booted the system for a year and a half. Over 60 simultaneous users. Try THAT with Windows. Mike - AA8K Brian Lloyd wrote: > > Precisely. Having to run Windows just ... well, anything would be > better: Linux, Solaris, BSD, MacOS, BeOS, VMS, RSX-11M, RSTS-E, RT-11, > CP/M, OS-8, OS/MVT, ITS, Multics ... > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
