27 Jun
2023
27 Jun
'23
4:31 a.m.
Sounds like P/OS for the Professional. I've heard of All-in-One, but
didn't realize they built something that was as bad an annoying as P/OS.
I wonder if it included Prose as a word processor.
Speaking of which, I wonder if those apps would run on a regular
pdp11/83 running RSX111M+. Maybe not the menu system, but the text/REGIS
apps like the editor and Pro/DATARIEVE should probably run. Hm.
I'm currently thinking of ways to try and get true M+ to run on the Pro.
Console serial isn't an issue, there is a way to activate that on the
printer port. The trick is the drivers, and if it's possible to have the
POS drivers for the disk drive and floppy controller somehow load into a
genned M+ system via VMR and/or CON.
But it would be interesting to get POS apps running on a real pdp11. If
they are user level it should not require a recompile. The real question
is Synergy window manager: Did it access video memory directly or did it
do the screen via REGIS drivers. I wonder because the video cards are
different between the Pro/350 and 380....
Chris
On 6/27/2023 2:26 AM, Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk wrote:
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 Jun 26, 2023, at 7:16 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> 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.
>>>>> 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
> 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.
>
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> bill
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