Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Rod Smallwood
On 29/04/2016 04:58, Jerome H. Fine wrote: >Rod Smallwood wrote: >On 28/04/2016 18:25, Evan Koblentz wrote: We all owe a big "Thanks!" to Harry Sanders at S Computer Systems and his Board of Directors for making this release a reality for all vintage computer folks! Also, the hobby owes

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>Rod Smallwood wrote: >On 28/04/2016 18:25, Evan Koblentz wrote: We all owe a big "Thanks!" to Harry Sanders at S Computer Systems and his Board of Directors for making this release a reality for all vintage computer folks! Also, the hobby owes huge thanks to Lyle Bickley for tirelessly

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>Lyle Bickley wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:22:11 -0500 "Jay West" wrote: --snip-- We all owe a big "Thanks!" to Harry Sanders at S Computer Systems and his Board of Directors for making this release a reality for all vintage computer folks! Also, the hobby owes huge

RE: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Jay West
Thanks are also due to Dennis Boone, who wrote the CGI code for the tsxplus download site. THANKS DENNIS! J

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Lyle Bickley
Hi All, Hopefully you all read in the "Notes" (and Jay's and my comments) that TSX-Plus requires RT-11 as a prerequisite. RT-11 is readily available all over the Internet. It is also available at on the classiccmp server at http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/ Cheers, Lyle -- 73 AF6WS

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread William Donzelli
Excellent news. Thank you for making this happen. -- Will On Apr 28, 2016 1:22 PM, "Jay West" wrote: > > Several years ago, Lyle Bickley began negotiations with S Computer Systems > to release TSX-Plus (a 3rd party Multiuser Operating System for PDP-11's) as > free

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Jerry Weiss
> On Apr 28, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote: > >> We all owe a big "Thanks!" to Harry Sanders at S Computer Systems and his >> Board of Directors for making this release a reality for all vintage >> computer folks! Also, the hobby owes huge thanks to Lyle Bickley for

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 28/04/2016 18:22, Jay West wrote: Several years ago, Lyle Bickley began negotiations with S Computer Systems to release TSX-Plus The distribution is at http://tsxplus.classiccmp.org Well done, Lyle. Thank you for your effort, and thanks too to the people at S This is great news. And

RE: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Jay West
Bill wrote... Wonder if this will work on 11/40 with 96K ISTR it requires 96kW minimum and 128kW recommended. Installation guide, section 2.3, page 5&6 (pdf file pages 9-10) will tell... J

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread william degnan
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Zane Healy wrote: > This is officially the best news I’ve had this week. Thanks Lyle and Jay > both! > > Yay! Software and documentation upgrade for my PDP-11/73! :-) When I > have time. :-( > > Zane > > > > Wonder if this will work on

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Zane Healy
This is officially the best news I’ve had this week. Thanks Lyle and Jay both! Yay! Software and documentation upgrade for my PDP-11/73! :-) When I have time. :-( Zane

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Paul Anderson
Fantastic!! Many thanks to Lyle, Jay, and S H!!! On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Jay West wrote: > Several years ago, Lyle Bickley began negotiations with S Computer > Systems > to release TSX-Plus (a 3rd party Multiuser Operating System for PDP-11's) > as > free

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Rod Smallwood
On 28/04/2016 18:57, Jay West wrote: Rod wrote... - Excellent -- One minor point you need RT11 to run it I think. - That is correct, and that is stated in the "Notes" on the distribution web page before you download it. For those not familiar with TSX-Plus, from a user standpoint -

RE: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Jay West
Rod wrote... - Excellent -- One minor point you need RT11 to run it I think. - That is correct, and that is stated in the "Notes" on the distribution web page before you download it. For those not familiar with TSX-Plus, from a user standpoint - it's a multi-user version of RT-11. You

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Rod Smallwood
On 28/04/2016 18:25, Evan Koblentz wrote: We all owe a big "Thanks!" to Harry Sanders at S Computer Systems and his Board of Directors for making this release a reality for all vintage computer folks! Also, the hobby owes huge thanks to Lyle Bickley for tirelessly pursuing this for us all!

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Lyle Bickley
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:22:11 -0500 "Jay West" wrote: --snip-- > We all owe a big "Thanks!" to Harry Sanders at S Computer Systems > and his Board of Directors for making this release a reality for all > vintage computer folks! Also, the hobby owes huge thanks to Lyle >

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

2016-04-28 Thread Evan Koblentz
We all owe a big "Thanks!" to Harry Sanders at S Computer Systems and his Board of Directors for making this release a reality for all vintage computer folks! Also, the hobby owes huge thanks to Lyle Bickley for tirelessly pursuing this for us all! I've always been a huge fan of TSX-Plus and I'm