23 Jan
2014
23 Jan
'14
3:38 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I wonder if you could fit a minimal TSX+ on one..
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:50 PM, William Donzelli
<wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
I need one...but I need a floppy drive more. ;)
It looks like I might have an extra RK05j
available, but first, a question:
I do not need another RK05J, but I will take a stab at your question...
Can a
reasonable PDP-11/45 system be made using a single RK05?
It's entirely dependent on your desired OS. I don't know how far back
one might go to find a suitably small RSTS version that fits in 2.5MB,
but many (most?) versions of RT-11 will fit in that much space, and
compared to a floppy install, an RK05-based RT-11 system will feel
quite zippy.
In the 1980s, we ran multi-user RSTS and RSX-11/M systems on a single
RL02 and in the same timeframe, I was running RT-11 on a single RL01
with lots of free space. It might be a "waste" of the resources of an
11/45 to run RT-11, but it will surely work.
RSTS will fit happily on an RL02, really.
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