Hi.
On 2018-02-07 21:26, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
On 2/7/2018 1:42 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
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
Hi Johnny,
We actually ran V7.x for the majority part of the time I was at
Rose-Hulman (1978-1983) but V6B was my first exposure to RSTS/E and in
fact to just about any "large" computing system. At the time in 1977
when I went to the camp I had been working on building a Digital Group
Z-80 from kits but hadn't finished. It might be that V7 was the epitome
classic RSTS/E before DCL, etc but your first is something special.
Understood. I did suspect it might be something like that. I remember
running V7 and V8 back in the day as well. But personally, I would
probably always install the latest and greatest version, even if my
nostalgic memories are of V7.1.
But we all have different kinks. :-)
I have been following all the news about the disappearance of Mentec,
the shadowy existance of XX2247, LLC and all. I was hoping there was
news that I'd missed. But I see not.
Yeah, unfortunately no news at this time. But don't give up hope...
Johnny
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|| on a psychedelic trip
email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
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