RL02 version of UNIX6?

[william degnan]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Mark Matlock <mark at matlockfamily.com> wrote:

> >> On Feb 2, 2017, at 11:19 PM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> ...
> >> I am curious to see  what OS's run on an 11/40 without the EIS card
> other
> >> than RT-11.  I am researching this.  I have always wanted to learn more
> >> about batch-11.
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > It may be that some flavors of RSX-11/M or /S can be built with no EIS,
> since it's supposed to be possible to build a non-MMU version at least of
> /S.  But I don't know the specifics (no RSX experience).
> >
> >       paul
>
> Bill, Paul,
>     I have been tinkering with old versions of RSX11M (back to V2) on
> non-mapped CPUs, primarily PDP-11/05 as I hope to get mine running soon. On
> Simh
> with the CPU set as a PDP-11/05 which does not have EIS (I also tried an
> 11/40 but the SET CPU NOEIS in Simh gave me an error so I couldn't be sure
> if it was disabled) I was able to boot the baseline distribution for RSX11M
> V4.0 on a RL02 distribution. See details below on the config I tested.
> RSX11M is a pretty capable multitasking, multiuser system and would be good
> fit for the PDP-11/40.
>

RL02 or RL01?  I have only RL02 drives (2).  Are you saying you can

1) Use simH to set up the environment
2) Port to RL02 image disk
3) Take image put on actual RL02?



>
> Best,
> Mark
>
> sim> sho cpu
> CPU     11/05, idle enabled, autoconfiguration enabled
>         64KB
> sim> sh rl
> RL      RL11, address=17774400-17774411, vector=160, 4 units
>   RL0   2621KW, attached to rsxm32.rl01, on line
>         write enabled, RL01
>   RL1   2621KW, attached to excprv.rl01, on line
>         write enabled, RL01
>   RL2   2621KW, attached to mcrsrc.rl01, on line
>         write enabled, RL01
>   RL3   2621KW, attached to rlutil.rl01, on line
>         write enabled, RL01
> sim> b rl
>
>
>   RSX-11M V4.0 BL32   28.K (BASELINE)
> >RED DL:=SY:
> >RED DL:=LB:
> >MOU DL:RSXM32
> >@DL:[1,2]STARTUP
> >* PLEASE ENTER TIME AND DATE (HR:MN DD-MMM-YY) [S]: 17:52 04-FEB-80
> >TIM 17:52 04-FEB-80
> >* ENTER LINE WIDTH OF THIS TERMINAL [D D:132.]: 80.
> >SET /BUF=TI:80.
> >@ <EOF>
> >dev
> DL0: Mounted Loaded Type=RL01
> DL1: Loaded Type=RL01
> TT0:
> NL0:
> TI0:
> CO0:    TT0:
> CL0:    TT0:
> LB0:    DL0:
> SY0:    DL0:
> >ins $pip
> >pip /li
>
>
> Directory DL0:[200,200]
> 4-FEB-80 17:52
>
> BLDLAINIT.CMD;1     14.        22-JAN-82 10:19
> SGNBLDDRV.CMD;1     19.        22-JAN-82 10:19
> SGNKLAB.CMD;1       70.        22-JAN-82 10:19
> SGNSTAND.CMD;1      4.         22-JAN-82 10:19
> SYSGEN.CMD;1        85.        22-JAN-82 10:19
> SYSGEN2.CMD;1       79.        22-JAN-82 10:19
> SYSGEN3.CMD;1       52.        22-JAN-82 10:19
>
> Total of 323./323. blocks in 7. files
>
>
>

I agree that it would run on the PDP 11/40 without EIS, but so far I have
not been able to get it onto an image that will write to actual RL02
disks.  I was playing around with this yesterday.

I was also working on getting Fortran onto a RT11 disk and in general
building a dual drive system that has a programming environment with enough
space to save program and a dataset.

I have a lot of RSX11/M manuals and docs here, compared with RT11 I'd love
to use RSX.  Are tools made for RSX compatible with RT-11, I am reading up
to see how these compare, what levels they're on...is RT11 like DOS and RSX
like "Windows" that sits on top of it, etc.  I know RSX is not a GUI, just
making an analogy.  I am researching all of this, up to this point I had
only dabbled in RT11.

Thanks

Bill