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.
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.
--
John H. Reinhardt
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