24 Jul
2003
24 Jul
'03
12:07 a.m.
I can settle this. I have the RT-11 and all the
other disks from the
syustem. If anyone is interested they can take the disks and find out how
they were controlling the DSD devices.
I can settle this... The RT development group had mostly 11/23-based
systems using DSD880s of various types for a number of years, and we
ran the stock RT-11 system on them just fine.
As Jerome has pointed out, if we needed to use the additional RL of
an 880/30, we had to rebuild the DL handler, and the code was there
in the DY driver, though we typically didn't use it.
In addition, I can say that the P/OS development group used DSD880s
on 11/23-based systems to develop P/OS in the early days -- there was
a qbus board which they used to do the P/OS graphics. It was
programmed almost identically to what was eventually in the PRO.
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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