13 Sep
2004
13 Sep
'04
12:20 p.m.
What PDP-11 OS screen is this?
Late version of RSTS?
http://ebayimages.octiva.net/PDP11-BOOTUP-SCREEN.JPG
Ed K.
13 Sep
13 Sep
12:33 p.m.
At 5:20 PM -0400 9/13/04, Ed Kelleher wrote:
What PDP-11 OS screen is this?
Late version of RSTS?
http://ebayimages.octiva.net/PDP11-BOOTUP-SCREEN.JPG
I can say with certainty it is not RSTS. Might be DSM?
John
12:53 p.m.
>>>> "Ed" == Ed Kelleher
<Pres(a)macro-inc.com> writes:
Ed> What PDP-11 OS screen is this? Late version of RSTS?
Ed> http://ebayimages.octiva.net/PDP11-BOOTUP-SCREEN.JPG
Definitely not RSTS. Not any OS I've ever seen, actually (not RT,
RSX, IAS, BSD, DOS, RSTS, or Ultrix...).
The message at the bottom mentions "DSM blocks". So I wonder if it's
DSM-11.
Is someone selling that? I know at least one person who might be
interested (slightly, anyway)...
paul
1:19 p.m.
At 05:53 PM 9/13/2004, you wrote:
I saw the DSM, but I've never heard of anyone actually running a MUMPS system,
least of all on a QBus machine. Course that's not saying much since I forgot
completely about IAS, and Ultrix and never have seen these either, but
they're there.
With the XDT at the top of the screen I thought it might be M related,
but M was never friendly (?) like that. :-)
Maybe Mplus?
And I don't think DEC made a RK06/RK07 QBus interface (DM2, DM3, DM4 on the
screen).
Though Dilog, and others possibly, made QBus controllers that emulated
those drives.
Anyway it was supposedly for a QBus PDP11 memory board but seemed funny to me.
Ed K.
>>>> "Ed" == Ed Kelleher <Pres(a)macro-inc.com> writes:
Ed> What PDP-11 OS screen is this? Late version of RSTS?
Ed> http://ebayimages.octiva.net/PDP11-BOOTUP-SCREEN.JPG
Definitely not RSTS. Not any OS I've ever seen, actually (not RT,
RSX, IAS, BSD, DOS, RSTS, or Ultrix...).
The message at the bottom mentions "DSM blocks". So I wonder if it's
DSM-11.
Is someone selling that? I know at least one person who might be
interested (slightly, anyway)... 
14 Sep
14 Sep
1:48 a.m.
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ed Kelleher wrote:
>The message at the bottom mentions "DSM
blocks". So I wonder if it's
>DSM-11.
It is.
I saw the DSM, but I've never heard of anyone
actually running a MUMPS system,
I do, as do two of my customers. One on a
MicroPDP-11/83, and the
other on a sortof homebrew 11/73.
least of all on a QBus machine. Course that's not
saying much since I forgot
completely about IAS, and Ultrix and never have seen these either, but
they're there.
Ultrix-11 rocks!
And I don't think DEC made a RK06/RK07 QBus
interface (DM2, DM3, DM4 on the
screen).
Though Dilog, and others possibly, made QBus controllers that emulated
those drives.
Emulex and Dilog both did. There were liked a lot by systems
integrators
that needed modern drives, full compatibility and a lower price than the
DEC stuff. This is probably DSM-11 on some OEM 11/73-ish system with
one of those boards.
--f
13 Sep
13 Sep
2:43 p.m.
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Subject: PDP 11 Boot screen?
What PDP-11 OS screen is this?
Late version of RSTS?
Nope, DSM-11 aka Digital Standard Mumps. The PDP 11/84 at Bletchley Park is
running DSM-11, and after fitting a new DEUNA to it the other month I had
pleasure in trying to figure my way round the OS to get troubleshooting
info......got it in the end but hells, talk about difficult!
Cheers
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