"Jerry Eckert" wrote:
> Was it a real PDP-11, with a switch register and lights, or one of those
> "fake" Micro-PDPs? After the 11/70 it was all downhill... :)
Believe it or not, but Digital actually had a multi-processor PDP-11. It
used to be up at Spitbrook Rd.
> >I myself remember my first computer: A VIC20. No real operating system,
> >just BASIC. And I used to whistle into a rotary phone when I wanted to go
> >online.
>
> RSTS was like that: you logged in and were sitting in a BASIC+ interpreter.
> Not even a text editor.
Digital developed a C compiler for RSTS, RSX and RT in 1988-1990. It was actually ANSI
C.
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