5 Oct
2021
5 Oct
'21
12:09 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 7:04 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
The initial DEC Rainbow port of Venix did not, though the later Boston
Software Works enhancements did. Venix 2.0R only supported RD50.
My Rainbow certainly is for similar disks.The MFM emulator isn't exactly
speedy, but it's at least a bit faster than the real disks it replaced.
Warner
On Oct 4, 2021, at 9:47 PM, Ethan Dicks via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 7:42 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I wonder if it supports at least an RD51, since those arrived together
with the RD50.
Oddly enough I do have a copy of Pro/Venix 1.0
that would fit on a
Pro/350 with a 5mb hard drive. Slow as *dirt*, you could literally watch
the hard drive seek back and forth with the little arm on the side. But
it did work.
I have one of those. I brought it to VCF East two years ago for the
Mother of all UNIX Demos. I think there's 300-400KB free on that
RD50. It is indeed
slow as dirt.
Chances are it would be noticeably faster with an MFM emulator connected.