11 May
2016
11 May
'16
3:08 p.m.
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Adrian Graham
<witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:
Not the 82xx/83xx, but the larger 85xx, 87xx and 88xx... Machines with
a Nautilus bus, mostly. The 8200|8250|8300|8350 were more like a
VAX-11/750 where the console "processor" was embedded into the CPU.
Some others
had a PRO as their console. Don't remember which models
specifically.
The 8{3|5}50s our biggest customer used had Pro380 VAX CONSOLES
I remember
our main menu system looked odd on them since they had a bitmapped display.
I've still got one of them I think, can't remember the last time I powered
it up but I'm pretty sure it was running TSX-11.
Nope. TSX-11 was not a DEC product. Pro350s and Pro380s (Pro325
didn't have a hard disk) usually ran P/OS, an RSX derivative for the
Professional series. You could also get RT-11 for the Pro, as well as
VENIX, but when used as a VAX console, it was P/OS and some
menus/assets for being a console. It's not hard to repurpose them.
-ethan