5 Jun
2009
5 Jun
'09
8:20 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On Jun 5, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Kirn Gill wrote:
RT-11 screams on pretty much anything faster than a KDF-11. On a
KDF-11, RT-11 always gave me acceptable single-user performance. On
machines with a hard disk (not floppy-only), the console serial line
speed always felt like the limiting factor. Running games, editing
files with EDT, compiling MACRO-11 programs, etc., all "felt" fine,
even on a machine that wasn't totally decked out. LSI-11s were a bit
sluggish, though.
-ethan
It's damnably slow, but at least it works.
?Yep. ?The scary thing is...an OS like RSX-11 or RSTS/E is quite zippy on a
machine like that.