22 Apr
2006
22 Apr
'06
11:24 a.m.
On 4/23/2006 at 12:03 AM Ethan Dicks wrote:
It's rather trivial to take the RSX/RSTS Adventure
sources and get
them working under VAX FORTRAN - a 32-bit environment and wads of
virtual space removes many of the restrictions imposed by a 16-bit
virtual space on an -11 OS. On a PDP-11, I think all ADVENT
implementations use overlays - not required on a VAX.
Geez, where did you guys get a VAX FORTRAN version? Back around 1974(?
IIRC), a friend who was a field engineer with DEC gave me a (7 track) tape
from a DECsystem 10 with the FORTRAN source. It took
me about a week of
bootlegging effort to get the tape read and ported over to a CDC
Cyber 174.
Judging from the huge collective waste of company time and resources spent
on the game, it was a wonder I didn't get fired.
Cheers,
Chuck