Who was putting together the TSX+ archive?

Jerome Fine replies: As far as I remember, Lyle received a system from S&H which he was able to somewhat (perhaps mostly) recover along with hard copy documentation. Does anyone have any contact with Lyle or did Lyle share any of this information on TSX-PLUS? Since I purchased a TSX-PLUS license over 10 years ago, I am legally able to run the software and have the latest distribution. It sounded like S&H gave Lyle permission to share distributions and documentation with hobby users wishing to run TSX-PLUS for non-commercial purposes. Can anyone confirm this? If so, then I would be able to share my distributions and documentation. I could also make up a hobby distribution from a distributor's release if that is preferred. An OBJ file is used to hold the copyright notice and user information which is then incorporated into one of the distribution OBJs. I remember having to do all of that when I upgraded a customer to V6.5 of TSX-PLUS after some locally required modifications were made to the resident monitor which had been part of the earlier version. I presume, Gordon, that you have the documentation for the V6.5 release? I have V6.5 as well as several sets from previous releases. The OBJ files can be UNMACed and converted to MAC files, but the DECUS release of UNMAC was not able to do the conversion without extensive enhancements. The primary problem was that the number of GLOBAL symbols far exceeded the capacity of the DECUS version of UNMAC. By the way, if anyone is running TSX-PLUS under Ersatz-11, the HD: disk drive provides an incredible alternative to VMX.SYS and frees up the use of the (emulated of course) PDP-11 memory. The version which I use under RT11XM will likely run as is under TSX-PLUS. Under RT11XM, the HDX.SYS is 3 times as fast as VMX.SYS, uses substantially less LOADed code and even the minimum version supports a full 65536 blocks. NOTE that under TSX-PLUS, the device driver name VM.TSX might not be allowed since I seem to remember that the VM: device was built into TSX-PLUS, but it has been a very long time and there may be a very separate VM.TSX file used - in which case: COPY HDX.SYS VM.SYS SET VM NAME,UNIT=e11 physical unit RENAME VM.SYS VM.TSX and you might be all set (until a bug is discovered) since there has been no testing under TSX-PLUS. I can probably be persuaded to test under TSX-PLUS if that become necessary. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.