Loading an OS onto a real PDP-11 - not an emulator

26 Mar 2008

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      That won't fly.  VTserver v2.x has a 32MB
file-size limit.  :(  
   Whoa, are you sure?  I'm quite certain that I used vtserver to 
 transfer a full-sized RD54 image to an 11/83 a few years ago.  
    That's what Fred van Kempen, who was maintaining VTserver at the 
 time, told me.  It came up because I had been trying to build a 2.11BSD 
 tape.  At the time, the TU80 was the only 9-track drive I had, so I was 
 doing it via vtserver.

    My memory generally sucks; I may have done
something else for that 
 image, but I know I've moved *some* images to that 11/83 using vtserver.  
    I can relate to the wetware issues. 
My memory is even worse, especially as I use other methods than vtserver. 

I'm pretty sure that this was a limitation a few years ago, but I think it
might have been removed.

My favorite way to do this is with a VAX, or CD-ROM (obviously this requires
the PDP-11 to have a SCSI Adapter).

Zane

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Loading an OS onto a real PDP-11 - not an emulator