I have put RSTS-11 media, docs and install log at: http://iamvirtual.ca/PDP-11/RSTS-11/Install.htm
--barrym On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:08 AM, Noel Chiappa <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Paul Koning > > >> When did V7 come out, BTW? > > > The files on the SYSGEN tape have a timestamp of 26-Sep-79, so "Fall > > 1979" sounds right. > > Ow. I was looking for something a lot earlier than that. I used RSTS-11 in > the '72-'74 timeframe, so it's a version from that era I'd like to have. > Any > idea what version that would be - and if it's still extant? > > > I've used the V4A kit (DECtapes) to build that ... (There's a V4A > > sysgen manual on Bitsavers too ...) > > When was that one? > > > >> It would be really nice to have sources - are they gone forever? > > > Some still exist. I know someone who has a RSTS source kit, not sure > > which version. I have pieces of source. > > OK, better than nothing. > > > A complication with all of this is the question of licensing. > There's a > > hobbyist license for RSTS to build and run it, but whether that > carries > > over to making sources available is an interesting question. I'm not > > sure who to ask these days, either. > > Hmm. I guess technically HP owns it now? > > Noel >
