23 Nov
2015
23 Nov
'15
12:02 p.m.
On Nov 23, 2015, at 2:37 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt
at Update.UU.SE> wrote:
...
RSTS added MSCP support in V8, so if you want to run V7 you'll want to have a
traditional disk emulation.
Yeah. And unless I remember wrong, V8 came in 1986?
No, 1983. I remembered wrong, though; UDA50 support arrived in RSTS 7.2, in 1982.
A nice reference for RSTS history is the wonderfully fictional "RSTS 80th
anniversary" document. A copy of it lives here:
http://www.silverware.co.uk/rsts_80th_birthday.htm . I don't remember who wrote that;
it came out as part of the 20th anniversary celebration, in 1990. In other words, the
entries for 1990 and before are basically accurate; everything after that is a product of
some very nice imagination.
paul
While, MSCP is interesting in that it's somewhat
drive independent, it's
complex and it only really works with newer OS's.
Well, "newer" in this case is sortof anything beyond the mid 80s. :-)