19 Jul
2001
19 Jul
'01
1:50 a.m.
William King wrote:
I recently acquired a load of 9 track tapes from eBay.
What a deal, I only
paid 1 cent for a trunk load of tapes. In there, I found an original DEC
RSX11M+ (3.0) distribution, several DECUS RSX SIG tapes from the fall of
1981 to the spring of 1987 and a bunch of other miscellaneous tapes!
Jerome Fine replies:
As mentioned from another reply, Tim Shoppa probably has those DECUS
RSX-11 tapes already available for download.
But the RSX11M+ (V3.00) may be OK to make available for download
as well. Zane, do you have a copy of the hobby license from Mentec as
to which versions of RSX-11 are allowed?
If copies are not available elsewhere, I was planning
on duping the RSX SIG
tapes and putting them up on my www site. I won't be putting the RSX
distribution online due to the copyright infringement problems :-(
V5.03 of RT-11 has already been put online for distribution. If V3.00 of RSX11M+
that you have is allowed in the Mentec license for hobby users, then it should
be possible to arrange to have that license attached the the RSX-11 version
that you have just like with the RT-11 V5.03 distribution. Since I use only RT-11
myself, I can't help with the RSX-11 software, but I am sure that many others
who do use RSX-11 would appreciate your doing so.
I have a PDP-11 running RT-11 (v5.03) and a uVAX-III
running VMS v5.5. I can
hook my 9 track tape drive (TS05) up to either of them. I'd bet VMS would be
the better bet, but I'm not sure about the best way to dup them so that they
would be useful for the rest of the world.
As I stated above, V5.03 of RT-11 (thank you Megan Gentry for making it
available) was made available for download almost three years ago.
Look at:
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/digital/sim/software/
the actual file is:
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/digital/sim/software/rtv53swre.tar.Z
for how V5.03 of RT-11 was done.
In addition, it has also been cross-posted to:
ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/pub/PDP-11/Sims/Supnik_2.3/software/
but the filename used is:
ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/pub/PDP-11/Sims/Supnik_2.3/software/rtv53swre.tar.gz
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine