17 Sep
1999
17 Sep
'99
12:28 p.m.
There are three interest areas potentiallyh addressed by these documents and
files.
First of all, there are doc's relating to ISIS-II which (IIRC) was the 8-bit
development environment of the very early '80's. Secondly, there are doc's
relating to iRMX-86, and some source files. Thirdly, there are doc's and
ostensibly source files relating to iAPX, which was another OS they were
pushing for the 8x86/87/88/89 family.
Some of the documents are assembler, debugger, compiler, etc. documents for
PL/M-80 and PL/M 86, PASCAL 86, the various macro assemblers and
cross-assemblers (in this case, for 8x86/88 family parts on their 8080/8085
platforms) and stuff like that.
There are also some manuals relating to the console hardware, etc, and the
MDS-80, among other things. There's even some hardware doc, though it's
user manual stuff.
If there were a web site which would accomodate the many thousands of pages
involved here I'd consider scanning the stuff and forwarding the bitmaps to
whoever wants them. Now, keep in mind that a typical TIFF of a printed page
in single-bit format is about 1 MB in size, and we're looking at a 1-2'-high
stack of paper with both sides printed in most cases. LEt's see. . . a ream
is about 1-3/4" = 500 sheets . . . let's say 10 reams . . . so we're looking
at 10 GB, right (GAWD! . . . I hope I've miscalculated!)
Well . . . It could be sent as PCX files, only about 1/4 the size, and
capable of being compressed as well . . . but it would still take a number
of hours of transfer time unless I go to the POP to do it. There I have 44
Mb/sec . . . Now, who's got that much space at their ISP?
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Fandt <cfandt(a)netsync.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Find of the day
Upon the date 03:05 PM 9/17/99 -0600, Richard Erlacher
said something like:
>Yesterday or the day before, I posted that I had found a number of Intel
>ISIS-II, iAPX, and iRMX-86 manuals. Is there a website where these could
be
>made available to whoever wants access?
>
>Likewise, I posted that I have about 20 diskettes in a case (not yet
>examined in detail) clearly marked iAPX Sources. Before I send these off
to
>one fellow who wants them, perhaps they should be
made available to the
>public at large. I'd be willing to send them to an appropriate web site
if
someone will
recommend one.
Hi Dick,
There are members on here, like myself, who are into the VME- and
Multibus-based industrial/embedded systems. I have several Multibus-I
boards and a couple of crates that I want to someday get running. iRMX-80
and -86 would indeed be of use in my attempts at this and any help such as
you're offering will be appreciated. Docs are just as important too.
Thanks much! --Chris
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