On Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 1:48:11 P.M. John
Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 06:43:04AM -0800, Bob Armstrong
wrote:
Would anyone have a distribution for MRRT-11?
I'd really like to find a
copy if anyone has it or can give me a pointer.
[What the heck is MRRT-11? "Memory Resident RT-11" - it's a hacked up
version of RT-11 that runs diskless. It was an official DEC product sold in
the late 70s.]
I thought it was just a conditional assembly of regular RT-11?
(MRRT$ conditionals in RMONSJ.MAC V4.0 for one). Of course that's
not the same as an actual distribution...
Just to add to what John wrote, a VERY quick search of
RT-11 source code starting with V05.00 of RT-11 does
not encounter the MRRT$ conditional.
As for V04.00 of RT-11, the conditional does appear in
RMONSJ.MAC, but not in RMONFB.MAC, so it seems
as if the MRRT$ Memory Resident aspect of RT-11
was available only with the SJ Monitor.
A quick search of files prior to V04.00 and after produced
no hits on the MRRT$ conditional symbol, so there is a
possibility (very strong starting with V05.00 of RT-11)
that DEC had support for MRRT-11 only with V04 of
RT-11 from about 1979 to 1983.
It is VERY possible that the user was responsible for producing
MRRT-11 and integrating such a system. From looking at
the *.Mac files for V04.00 of RT-11, the MRRT$ conditional
appears in at least the RMONSJ, USR and the BSTRAP files.
There is some indication that the memory resident code did
not support a file system, but that is not certain. More important
would be to locate the documentation for MRRT-11 to
determine additional details of how it was put together and
how it operated
Since I have never actively used MRRT-11, I can't provide
and more help at this point.
Jerome Fine