On 2018-02-07 18:01, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
With all the recent discussion of BASIC games and such, I have been
reminiscing about my first days introduced to RSTS/E and the PDP-11 at
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's Camp Retupmoc in summer 1977. At
the time they were running V6B on their PDP-11/70. I've searched for
some time for various versions of RSTS/E and I've found a few
distributions.
The joy of reliving yesteryear... ;-)
I have a real PDP-11 chassis and cards which I am slowly working toward
refurbishing. But they are newer MicroPDP-11 types and would not run
anything older than V8 or V9. I've found a copy of V6C which is pretty
close but I'm wondering if anyone has V6B on TAP format. Hopefully the
SYSGEN tape or a running system that can be re-configured. I would run
it on a SIM-11 emulation.
I would have expected V7 something to be the ultimate if you wanted
"old" style RSTS/E. V8 might also fit the bill. V9 definitely have a
different taste, though...
I know mention has been made of source listing/tapes. I don't know the
legality but if it's possible to get source for a V6 or even V7 I'd love
to have it to look at to see how things were done.
While I really can't help with finding any distributions, I can at least
comment on the legality question, even if you won't like the answer.
RSTS/E is still owned by someone (XX2247 LLC) and is not available as
things stand today.
It's a long story...
Johnny
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|| on a psychedelic trip
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