17 Jun
2002
17 Jun
'02
6:59 p.m.
Jerome wrote:
Last week, I was able to borrow an RKV11D Qbus
controller
and copy most of the 17 packs (there were a few packs with bad
blocks) with the RT-11 files to a CD. Within a few months, it
should be possible to make these distributions available under the
emulator license, just as V5.03 and V4.00 or RT-11 are now.
I wrote:
Not to complain, but why "within a few
months"?
Jerome Fine replies:
Not to exaggerate the problems, but have you ever used
RT-11? Have you
ever tried to recover files when some of the blocks are bad? The
process is extremely time consuming and requires great patience.
That's fine, wish I could help out. I just misunderstood because I
thought from your original message that you had *already* dumped images
of the packs, so I wasn't clear on the nature of the delay.
Anyhow, having this material available at all will be wonderful, so I
certainly don't intend to criticize. Thanks for going to the trouble
of doing this!
Eric