Wondering which OS to use (PDP-8/A) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Oct 2005

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

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  Subject: Re:
Wondering which OS to use (PDP-8/A)
   From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at Update.UU.SE>
   Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:06:20 +0200 (CEST)
     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:

  You may or may not have an RL boot PROM in your
KM8AA, but if you
 don't, you can always key in the RL bootstrap by hand. 
I'm not even sure they exist. Anyone have boot roms for RL? 
 There must be as DEC sold 8As and RL02s as multi user WPS systems
 (wps200 comes to mind). 
Good point!

...
  No idea what the underlying OS for WPS was. 
There wasn't any. WPS is self contained. I have a RX01 floppy with WPS-8
somewhere... I've even booted it on one 8/A here. Works fine. :-)

	Johnny

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