At 6:51 PM +1100 3/23/08, Doug Jackson wrote:
If somebody could provide some pointers - that would be
awesome.....
In an ideal world, I would be able to get RSTS onto this system (I
have dual RL01's - so that may not work) - Alternately, just being
able to boot RT11 to load a Forth interpreter would also work. [Yes,
this is where I admit to being a Forth person - I hope people will
still want to talk to me having admitted that]
With dual RL01's you're going to be fairly limited on space, I don't
know how old of a version of RSTS/E you'd need to go with in order to
get it to fit. RT-11 is a good choice for a system with that limited
of disk space.
The easiest way to do what you want is to have a VMS system capable
of reading and writing RL01's. I have a MicroVAX III buried in
storage that was built for just this purpose. The other advantage of
a VAX (or Alpha) is that you can use it to backup tapes to TPC images
and restore those images back to tape. You can do all of this with
an RSX-11M/M+ system as well, but TCP/IP is included with Hobbyist
VMS.
Getting to the point you can easily do all this was a time consuming
process 10 years ago, not sure how hard the stuff is to get now.
OTOH, there are some other options now, and the software is easier to
obtain.
Another way to do this easily is get a SCSI adapter for your system.
Of course that can be difficult to do affordably. With the right
setup, it is possible to install at least RT-11, RSX-11M, and
RSX-11M+ off of a CD.
Zane
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