22 May
2002
22 May
'02
12:29 p.m.
Might it be possible to use the colour output when
connected
to the TV? Now that would be an interesting appliance?
Shoot, I think just getting it to work in monochrome on a TV is interesting!
Is VENIX worth
trying on this thing?
I don't know what VENIX is or how it works, but I get the
impression that VENIX was used on the PRO350 when
the PRO350 was used as the console device for the
VAX 780?????? 
22 May
22 May
12:36 p.m.
Is VENIX worth trying on this thing?
I don't know what VENIX is or how it works, but I get the
impression that VENIX was used on the PRO350 when
the PRO350 was used as the console device for the
VAX 780?????? 
1:11 p.m.
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:
I've read through the supported hardware list for
RSX-11M and
the Pro350 and Pro380 are listed, but I don't know when support
was added.
OK, considering I dont have anything else close to a PDP-11, but can write
RX50 disks using Teledisk or whatever else on DOS that someone can point
me to, how is the best way to install RSX-11M (or RT-11) onto it? [ie are
there disk images somewhere?]
-- Pat
1:30 p.m.
--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote:
VENIX is a UNIX varient.
And it fits on an RD51 (10MB)!
Personally, of all the OS's available I'd
recommend RT-11.
Me, too.
My Pro380 was originally a VAX console (they were used
on
the 8000 somethings).
Mine, too... My Pro380 came from a VAX 8530 that we bought for one
project/customer, we fixed the bug (NMI crashes when a BI STOP was
issued in the driver), then the customer decided on a different
product (we swapped out the hardware, but did not give them a refund
on the different to help ease the pain of buying a VAX just to service
them). When we closed, the 8530 didn't make the move, but I took
the console home.
It's still got the software for that on the hard
drive. I'm not sure
what exactly it is, other than I don't think it's P/OS,
It's P/OS, a Pro-ish RSX-11.
and it's most definitly not RT-11 or a UNIX
varient.
That's true.
I think it's also possible to run a version of
2.xBSD (2.9 IIRC) on the
Pro's.
It is now. You can't use an ancient distro - it doesn't support MSCP
controllers (like the ST506 controller in the Pro) - the patch is
quite modern. I have not yet tried putting 2.9BSD on a Pro350. If
I were going to put UNIX on the Pro380, I'd go with 2.11 since the CPU
in it (KDJ11) supports split I&D space and greater than 64KB of process
space.
-ethan
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8:06 p.m.
At 03:30 PM 22/05/2002 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
It is now. You can't use an ancient distro - it
doesn't support MSCP
controllers (like the ST506 controller in the Pro) - the patch is
quite modern. I have not yet tried putting 2.9BSD on a Pro350. If
I were going to put UNIX on the Pro380, I'd go with 2.11 since the CPU
in it (KDJ11) supports split I&D space and greater than 64KB of process
space.
I have a PRO380 which is sitting in a cupboard until I can find out how to
install 2.11 on it. I'd love to talk to someone who has successfully gone
down this path.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
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24 May
24 May
6:17 a.m.
--- Huw Davies <Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au> wrote:
I have a PRO380 which is sitting in a cupboard until I
can find out how
to install 2.11 on it. I'd love to talk to someone who has successfully
gone down this path.
The patch I know about is for 2.9BSD so you can stuff it onto a Pro350.
2.9BSD does not come with MSCP support, but _does_ work on the KDF11.
I know that 2.11BSD supports MSCP but do not know if it natively supports
the Pro disk controller.
Worst case, if it isn't supported out of the box, you'd have to port
the Pro disk controller driver from 2.9BSD to 2.11BSD.
Are disks formatted on a Pro compatible with the RQDX3? I ask because
I'd probably want to format an ST251 as an RD33 in an RQDX3, load
stuff on a Qbus box, then move the disk to the Pro.
-ethan
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23 May
23 May
4:49 a.m.
Ethan Dicks said:
--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote:
Really? Where might one be able to get VENIX? I recently acquired an 11/23
with an RD51, so that might be fun to play with...
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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VENIX is a UNIX varient.
And it fits on an RD51 (10MB)!
4:52 a.m.
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dan Wright wrote:
Ethan Dicks said:
The same place as all the other PRO software. A quick google yields:
http://www.os2site.com/sw/dec/pro/
which is where I downloaded quite a few things from today/yesterday.
-- Pat
--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote:
Really? Where might one be able to get VENIX? I recently acquired an 11/23
with an RD51, so that might be fun to play with...
VENIX is a UNIX varient.
And it fits on an RD51 (10MB)!
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