17 Jan
2002
17 Jan
'02
1:38 p.m.
Hmmm, does anyone on interex understand this format?
Bill McDermith wrote:
From the hp
users group, interex, you can get the RTE-6 OS, but only
in fst format, which is
some sort of tape dump/backup format that I
cannot (yet) decode, so I'm not sure how to build a loadable system...
The manuals are also available... If anyone knows how to decode
this to build bootable media, please let me know.
I believe this is under a sort of hobbist license (i.e. noncommercial
use...)
I would assume that all RTE systems post RTE-IV needed a 21MX
style computer (1000 series...) with the memory management option
installed (on later computers it may not have been an 'option'...)
Please correct me if I'm wrong...
Bill McDermith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Shannon" <bshannon(a)tiac.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: More HP1000's, and bootstrapping old systems in general.
The 9885 is listed in HP documentation as the
12732A flexible disk system,
with
a capacity of 500 K bytes per drive, 4 drives
maximum.
It is supported under RTE-II, RTE-III, RTE-IV, RTE-IVB, and RTE-M.
It is not supported under RTE-L or RTE-XL.
...snip...snip...snip...
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