PDP 11/73 on the Internet - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Jun 2009

Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:

...
  Dave McGuire wrote:
 > >> It's damnably slow, but at least
it works.
 > 
 >   Yep.  The scary thing is...an OS like RSX-11 or RSTS/E is quite zippy 
 > on a machine like that.  
 Hmmm.  Porting (or writing a work-alike of) RSX-11 for a newer 
 architecture (suck as PC -- for the low cost) comes to mind. 
Not a big problem as such. You could probably almost reuse much of the 
existing code.
The big problem would be that you'd need to write all the applications 
as well.
The paradisgms of RSX comes nowhere near Unix, so almost no existing 
programs will be very usable under RSX.

	Johnny

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