24 May
2011
24 May
'11
10:42 p.m.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:18 PM, allison <ajp166 at verizon.net> wrote:
I feel fortunate that for a year or so, I made my living writing
application and graphics code on RT-11. There probably aren't many
people under 50 now who had the chance for that experience. It was a
joy to code on, and 99% of what I did was in MACRO-11.
?I never said
it was. ?I just said it doesn't do much, which is true.
?It's a bit more capable than CP/M. ?Wonderful and fantastic for
single-user, single-terminal work...but that's about it.
We are never going to argue there! I can appreciate that. ?But I was doing the PC when
the PC was still a
wannabe. ?RT11FB or XM gave me
a lot more than DOS...
The other guys at my shop at the time were coding in Turbo Pascal on
Everex PC-AT clones. I did not envy them.
My other favorites was VMS and RSTS and RSX and even a
fun little OS called
Ultrix.
I encountered VMS first, then UNIX (4BSD), then Ultrix, then RT-11 -
all within a couple of years. Dabbled with RSTS and RSX, but never
enough to get good at them. Great times!
-ethan