24 May
2011
24 May
'11
9:18 p.m.
On 05/24/2011 12:29 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 5/24/11 12:10 PM, allison wrote:
Dave,
Huh? Well, maybe from the quadcore terabyte Internet connected 3dHD
graphics
point of view.
No, from a connect-ten-terminals-and-a-few-modems point of view.
We are never going to argue there!
> With 8KW you need a really old copy of RT11 maybe
V3 or V2 and it
> would
> not do much.
Heck Allison, RT11 v4 and v5 don't do much either! ;)
Now those are fighting words... I find v5.4 and higher to be very
capable. So RT11V5..useless no, not at all.
I never said it was. I just said it doesn't do much, which is true.
It's a bit more capable than CP/M. Wonderful and fantastic for
single-user, single-terminal work...but that's about it.
My only experience with PDP-11 systems in production
at work years
ago was multitasking, multiuser applications, so that's where my
interests lie. For single-user, single-tasking stuff, I'm a CP/M guy.
I did both single user applications oriented and as you describe multi
everything. Oddly often the same
hardware just different OS.
That said, I do use RT11 quite a bit, but my primary
PDP-11-related
interests lie with the "bigger" OSs and system configurations.
I can appreciate that. But I was doing the PC when the PC was still a
wannabe. RT11FB or XM gave me
a lot more than DOS. but a lot smaller (then) then VMS and the machines
it ran on.
This is a matter of point of view, yes...but from a
RSTS/E and
RSX-11M point of view, not a "quadcore terabyte Interet connected
3dHD" point of view. You should know me better than that by now.
;) leg pulled, yes! Dave, I could not resist!
My comments were as much for those that have no idea, where their life
didn't exist pre I386 or winders.
computing as we knew it took a big change in the early 90s.
My other favorites was VMS and RSTS and RSX and even a fun little OS
called Ultrix.
Allison
-Dave