16 Feb
2010
16 Feb
'10
5:32 a.m.
Has anyone managed to get any of the Layered Products installed on
RSTS/E V9.X (X >= 6)? Aside from F77 for which there was a declaration
of success here:
http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/2008-March/001719.html
I tried with BASIC Plus 2 V2.6 (with RSTS/E 9.6) and can see that the
tape appears to be a BACKUP INSTAL.BCK set, but RESTORE is refusing to
work with the tape (TPC file).
Does anyone happen to have the BP2 installation guide or tips on how
the layered products are generally installed on RSTS/E?
A related question: Can anyone explain what a field-test versions of
RSTS/E means? is it a release candidate (in modern parlance) or a
beta? I see RSTS/E V10 but it is annotated with field-test so I assume
it was not the final shipping version.
thanks.
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16 Feb
16 Feb
8:08 a.m.
New subject: [comp.sys.dec] BASIC-Plus-2
On Feb 16, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Nigel Williams wrote:
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Has anyone managed to get any of the Layered Products
installed on
RSTS/E V9.X (X >= 6)? Aside from F77 for which there was a declaration
of success here:
http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/2008-March/001719.html
I tried with BASIC Plus 2 V2.6 (with RSTS/E 9.6) and can see that the
tape appears to be a BACKUP INSTAL.BCK set, but RESTORE is refusing to
work with the tape (TPC file).
Does anyone happen to have the BP2 installation guide or tips on how
the layered products are generally installed on RSTS/E?
Usually one would do "@[0,1]instal <packagename>" to install the
layered products. I'm working on BP2 now, actually, and can't seem
to make it work. I'm not sure why; I haven't really dug into it
yet. I hope to spend some time on it tomorrow.
-Dave
5:56 p.m.
New subject: [comp.sys.dec] BASIC-Plus-2
On Feb 16, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Nigel Williams wrote:
Has anyone managed to get any of the Layered Products
installed on
RSTS/E V9.X (X >= 6)? Aside from F77 for which there was a declaration
of success here:
http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/2008-March/001719.html
I tried with BASIC Plus 2 V2.6 (with RSTS/E 9.6) and can see that the
tape appears to be a BACKUP INSTAL.BCK set, but RESTORE is refusing to
work with the tape (TPC file).
Does anyone happen to have the BP2 installation guide or tips on how
the layered products are generally installed on RSTS/E?
OK, I've just done this successfully under a few different
releases of RSTS/E under simh. The difference is I'm using v2.7, not
v2.6, because that's what I had handy.
First, make sure the tape is attached as a TPC file, see the simh
docs. Then, ALLOCATE your tape device, and run "@[0,1]instal bp2"
and follow the prompts.
That's it...worked like a champ.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
7:34 p.m.
From: Nigel Williams
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 9:33 PM
A related question: Can anyone explain what a
field-test versions of
RSTS/E means? is it a release candidate (in modern parlance) or a
beta? I see RSTS/E V10 but it is annotated with field-test so I assume
it was not the final shipping version.
I believe that the nomenclature was DEC-wide, so I can tell what it meant
in the 36-bit world. A Field Test was a beta with selected customers, who
reported problems encountered on a QAR (very much like an SPR but not going
to the same address). At the end of the Field Test, which might ship a
number of tapes over the course of the test, a "clock tape" was issued which
is the equivalent of a Release Candidate in modern parlance. This came out
a couple of weeks prior to release.
The TOPS-20 v6 field test involved 6 sets of tapes prior to the clock tape;
v6.1 came out just a couple of months after the official release. The v7
field test involved only 3 sets of tapes before the clock tape. I was the
official point of contact for the v7 field test at Stanford.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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Seattle, WA 98104
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