> On Dec 29, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> From: Paul Koning
>
>> Here's what it looked like
>
> Not having RT11, I embedded this in a small stand-alone program (which took a
> little work, Unix assembler being rather different :-), so I could see it (it
> wasn't o
Yes, RT11 (when it introduced Sysgen, which was later than V2) did so by
supplying sources that had been stripped of their comments. So they were
useful for sysgen but not (easily) useable for custom OS changes.
DEC did offer source licenses for many of its operating systems, at extremely
hi
(Not RT-11, PDP-11, or even DEC...)
The Multics process scheduler quantum is 1/4 second; running processes are
interrupted and rescheduled every 1/4 second.
The idle process updates the light pattern and sleeps until the 1/4 timer
runs out or an interrupt occurs.
"
" Idle with a flashing pattern
> From: Paul Koning
> Here's what it looked like
Not having RT11, I embedded this in a small stand-alone program (which took a
little work, Unix assembler being rather different :-), so I could see it (it
wasn't obvious from the code what it did).
Pretty clever, to get that complex a pa
Just in case there are Australian list members not on VCF, this may be of
interest:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?61284-Free-DEC-Rack-and-Tru64-manu
als-NSW-North-Shore
Regards
Rob
