20 Dec
2013
20 Dec
'13
2:24 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:12:36AM -0800, Al Kossow wrote:
One of the things that got me started thinking about
this again was
Dale Luck just got a really nice 8/e that he wants to run TSS/8 on.
I had to break the news to him that RF08s are impossible to find.
IIRC, DECUS used to have someone's patches for somehow running TSS/8 on
an RK8E/RK05 (only). I'm suspicious, since the DF32/RF08's word-oriented
behavior is exposed in the RFILE/WFILE calls so they'd need to find space
for sector buffers, but, whatever. Anyway it's no RL8A but if true it solves
the same basic problem. (TSS/8 officially supported the RK8E/RK05 as a
data-only device but not as a system device.)
Did you see that someone else has turned up with a
TSS/8 listing?
No! I'm surprised they bothered with 8.22 since I've had 8.24 online for
years and years (although I think mine does have a typo or two) and I don't
think 8.22 has any advantages over the later version. But hey, whatever!
It makes sense that people want to duplicate the system they used in the
old days.
John Wilson
D Bit