26 Jun
2023
26 Jun
'23
11:26 p.m.
A-to-Z is listed in
https://doc.lagout.org/science/0_Computer%20Science/0_Computer%20History/ol…
at several pdf pages, e.g. 54 & 412.
It says:
A-to-Z Base System
The A-to-Z Base System is a user-installable, multiuser base system that
sup-
ports up to ten concurrent users on MicroPDP-11 and sixteen or more concur-
rent users on MicroVAX. The A-to-Z Base System includes menu-driven system
management functions as well as the ability to install Micro/RSX and/or
MicroVAX applications. Inherent in the system are the menu manager and
flow-control processor, which insulate the end user from the system-level
inter-
face without isolating the developer or system manager from the functions
avail-
able at the operating system level. The A-to-Z Base System for MicroPDP-11
includes the Micro/RSX operating system software, whereas the other A-to-Z
Base Systems require the purchase of MicroVMS as prerequisite software.
SPD 18.16
The latest version I know of is A-to-Z V2.2A from 1988.
Ulli
Am Di., 27. Juni 2023 um 00:49 Uhr schrieb Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>gt;:
On 6/26/2023 10:07 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> On 6/25/2023 8:26 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> On 6/25/23 16:59, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>> I have 3" and 1800 pages of possible PDP-11 applications. Trying to
>>> guess what
>>>
>>> application created those files is likely to be a study in
frustration.
trimmed-down variant of "ALL-IN-ONE".
The Software Sourcebook list only MicroRSX as the OS supporting the various
pieces of A-to-Z. There is no listing for anything called A2Z.
bill
> On Jun 26, 2023, at 7:16 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>> Does the
>>>
>>> "customer" have no idea what programs they ran under RSX-11 that
might have
>>>
>>> created those files?
>> The "customer" no longer inhabits this vale of tears.
>>
>> Was there an application called A2Z? Just probing around in the files.
>
> Actually, there was. It was a DEC product and ran on MicroRSX. It
consisted of a
number of
packages and was a complete business operations system.
bill
On RSTS, also, I think. Some vague memory says that it was a