>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  DS> At 12:43 PM 1/2/01 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
  >> 
  >> which OS? rt-11 was my favorite!

  DS> RSTS/E, of course. If for no other reason than I've never used
  DS> RT-11 or RSX. (Well, unless you count VMS in as an RSX variant...)
  DS> A rather nice OS, all things considered.

infidel! rt-11 was the true ancestor of cp/m and the evil winblows. it
should have a perl port for historical reasons alone.

and it had disk and ram OVERLAYS support up the wazoo. 22 bits pf
physical ram could be mapped into the 64k address space. kinda like
reverse virtual memory. 

:)

uri

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