28 Jun
2020
28 Jun
'20
2:08 p.m.
From: Paul Koning
RSTS/E of course has a bunch of new stuff in it to
deal with mapping,
but the bulk of the code carries over from RSTS-11.
I was assuming that the basic intermal environment was sufficiently different
that not a lot of the OS-level code could carry over, but I guess not.
DId you actually work on RSTS-11 internals (I don't know your exact dates at
DEC), or did you just read the source?
And speaking of which, are any RSTS-11 sources still extant? I found the RSTS
directory on BitSavers, but it seems to have only manuals.
Noel
28 Jun
28 Jun
4:16 p.m.
On Jun 28, 2020, at 5:08 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Mostly I read the source, starting in university where we were running RSTS-11. I started
working on it at DEC in the V7.0 era, for DECnet V2.0.
From: Paul Koning
RSTS/E of course has a bunch of new stuff in it
to deal with mapping,
but the bulk of the code carries over from RSTS-11.
I was assuming that the basic intermal environment was sufficiently different
that not a lot of the OS-level code could carry over, but I guess not.
DId you actually work on RSTS-11 internals (I don't know your exact dates at
DEC), or did you just read the source? And speaking of which, are any RSTS-11 sources still
extant? I found the RSTS
directory on BitSavers, but it seems to have only manuals.
I don't remember if any of the material in bits/pdp11/rsts on Bitsavers is RSTS-11.
There is the material from PDP-10 tapes that was discussed here in the past year, which I
identified as very early RSTS sources. I don't know yet if they are complete enough
to run, that would be an interesting experiment.
FWIW, there's a RSTS/E V10.1 source master copy (including DECnet/E and build control
files) among the Bitsavers materials.
paul
7:05 p.m.
On 6/28/2020 6:16 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
I don't remember if any of the material in
bits/pdp11/rsts on Bitsavers is RSTS-11. There is the material from PDP-10 tapes that was
discussed here in the past year, which I identified as very early RSTS sources. I
don't know yet if they are complete enough to run, that would be an interesting
experiment.
FWIW, there's a RSTS/E V10.1 source master copy (including DECnet/E and build control
files) among the Bitsavers materials.
Has anyone ever posted any of the V6 or V7
sources?? I see the V8 and V10.1 sources on Bitsavers.
paul
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