22 Apr
2011
22 Apr
'11
5:09 a.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 9:13 PM
-0700 4/21/11, CRC wrote:
A friend desires to leave the hot desert this
summer and move to the
cool mountain and yet maintain contact with his PDP11 with which he
still runs his business. He has a rotten phone connection, but good
internet. He runs a highly modified version of RTST 5x and cannot
reasonably move his stable 30 y/o applications to later/other OS's. I
would appreciate knowing what the listers use to accomplish same.
I would recommend running the E11 PDP-11 emulator on a laptop. Though
based on what you describe, I think SIMH could work just as well.
Honestly I'd recommend moving it over to an emulator anyway if he's
running his business off of it. It's one thing for those of us here
to run PDP-11 hardware of that vintage as a hobby, it's another thing
to depend on it for your livelihood. What type of drives is he using? The following webpage desperately needs updated, but
should point you
in the right direction.
http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp11emu.html
While I could help with an RT-11 system, RSTS/E is
beyond my knowledge base. If you specify the hardware
environment (disk drives, terminals and internet), additional
suggestions can be made.
Jerome Fine