19 May
2008
19 May
'08
7:23 a.m.
An old client has requested help with hardware and software support for
some very old
PDP-11 systems running RT-11. The best solution may be to use E11
rather than fixing
some of the old hardware.
Another reason that using E11 would probably be the best solution is
that there may be
reports that take up to a day to produce using real DEC hardware. Since
my estimate
with E11 for a current 3 GHz CPU is about 100 times the speed of a
PDP-11/93, these
reports would take less than 30 minutes.
An RT-11 license will also need to be purchased. Does anyone have an
e-mail address
for Mentec? I contacted John Wilson a few weeks ago, but have not had a
response.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine