On Jul 2, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Was that the RTOS used with the T-11 (the first single-chip PDP-11?)
I seem to remember that it was used as the RTOS in the LA-120 printer.
Did the LA120 have a T11 in it? Wow - makes me want to go take mine apart
and look :-)
It's good that you brought this up, because I was going to ask about
examples of devices that used embedded PDP-11s, probably mostly DEC made but
not always.
For example, the RFxx drives (all of 'em, I think) used a T11 and I'm
pretty sure ran some variant of RSX-11S.
Not the RF11 :-)
paul
On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2012-07-02 16:40, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
On Jul 2, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Bob Armstrong wrote:
...
RSX-11S was the "embedded system OS" of the PDP-11 world (at least as far
as DEC's offerings went).
That and RT-11. And MicroPower-Pascal, of which I know nothing apart from its name. Was that the RTOS used with the T-11 (the first single-chip PDP-11?) I seem to remember that it was used as the RTOS in the LA-120 printer. Having a real OS allowed it to do fancy stuff like bidirectional printing, the first DEC printer to do so.
I'm not sure how practical the other ones were as embedded systems. The big point with RSX-11S is that it's all just one binary for the whole system. There are no disks. In fact, you can't even have things on disk in the sense that you think for other systems.
Without disks, you could put this all on PROM, flash, or whatever. Or (which I think was more common), download from the net, and then run.
As far as I know, RT likes a disk, or something disklike, such as DECtape (real or even the fake "DECtape II"). But Micropower, I'm pretty sure, is a deep embedded system that runs from ROM/RAM.
paul
On 2012-07-02 18:26, Steve Davidson wrote:
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Subject: RE: [HECnet] This is probably been asked already but....
The PRO was for later VAXen. 8800-range, I think.
That must be where I saw it, because I remember a VAX with
what was clearly a PRO attached to it. We used to joke that
it was the only way DEC could sell the PROs :-)
The 86x0 uses a T11, and runs RT-11.
Was it like a FALCON/KXT11 board based thing, or some
custom T11 board?
How (where) did they get RT11 for it? The T11 had a few
oddities (e.g. no bus timeout traps) and AFAIK RT11 was never
supported on T11 systems. I've heard that there was an
unofficial, hacked up, copy of some RT11 release that would
work but I never saw a copy.
The 86x0 does in fact run a real version of RT-11. The disk sub-system
was a RL0x (can't remember if it was 1 or 2). It had its own set of
quirks - to say the least! The sources have macros to deal with the
T-11 differences. They were in the middle of the changes to RT-11 just
as I joined the group. One of the guys spent quite a bit of time in
Marlboro, MA trying to get the sub-system to deal with the RL0x.. It
was a beast! :-)
It's an RL02.
Not sure what part of the RLV12 or RL02 that was a beast. It's a bog standard RLV12 and RL02. RT-11 in general supports this without any issues.
Yes, there is a Q-bus in a VAX-86x0. It's in the same box as the first Unibus. The Q-bus only have the RLV12, and no other/additional peripherials are supported on the Q-bus.
The FE runs RT-11, but normally a specific program is started at boot time, which manages the whole system. You can reboot the FE with a special switch to tell it to not run that program, and then you instead get to the normal RT-11 prompt, and can do the same things as on any RT-11 system. You can also run the FE application by hand at that point.
The FE is a VAX-86x0 specific board, so I'm not sure what peculiarities might be in the hardware, which this version of RT-11 is adapted to.
The Q-bus comes out of the 86x0 backplane on two flat cables, which goes into the expansion box.
Johnny
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: [HECnet] Process.Com and Multinet
: 2 2012 20:31
Has anyone been able to get to PROCESS.COM lately? I am trying to get
their to renew my Multinet license but it keeps timing out. Until I get
this sorted out SG1:: will not be able to support tunnel links.
Thanks!
-Steve
BlackBerry
Well WHOIS also points at the US, mainly PA.
Israel eh? Sounds like someone got hijacked :)
Sampsa
On 2 Jul 2012, at 19:38, Marc Chametzky wrote:
Something looks amiss with their web server. I can get to the FTP server, though.
What did surprise me was that when I did a traceroute to www.process.com, it took me to Israel. I wonder whether that's correct or not.
The FTP server traceroutes more logically seemingly to Massachusetts somewhere.
--Marc
Something looks amiss with their web server. I can get to the FTP server, though.
What did surprise me was that when I did a traceroute to www.process.com, it took me to Israel. I wonder whether that's correct or not.
The FTP server traceroutes more logically seemingly to Massachusetts somewhere.
--Marc
Has anyone been able to get to PROCESS.COM lately?
The web site is not working for me, either.
They're in Framingham - that's about 90 minutes from you, right? You
could always drive by and see if the lights are on :-)
Process Software
959 Concord Street
Framingham, MA 01701
Phone: (800) 722-7770
(508) 879-6994
FAX: (508) 879-0042.
Bob
Has anyone been able to get to PROCESS.COM lately? I am trying to get
their to renew my Multinet license but it keeps timing out. Until I get
this sorted out SG1:: will not be able to support tunnel links.
Thanks!
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Bob Armstrong
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 12:10
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: RE: [HECnet] This is probably been asked already but....
The PRO was for later VAXen. 8800-range, I think.
That must be where I saw it, because I remember a VAX with
what was clearly a PRO attached to it. We used to joke that
it was the only way DEC could sell the PROs :-)
The 86x0 uses a T11, and runs RT-11.
Was it like a FALCON/KXT11 board based thing, or some
custom T11 board?
How (where) did they get RT11 for it? The T11 had a few
oddities (e.g. no bus timeout traps) and AFAIK RT11 was never
supported on T11 systems. I've heard that there was an
unofficial, hacked up, copy of some RT11 release that would
work but I never saw a copy.
The 86x0 does in fact run a real version of RT-11. The disk sub-system
was a RL0x (can't remember if it was 1 or 2). It had its own set of
quirks - to say the least! The sources have macros to deal with the
T-11 differences. They were in the middle of the changes to RT-11 just
as I joined the group. One of the guys spent quite a bit of time in
Marlboro, MA trying to get the sub-system to deal with the RL0x.. It
was a beast! :-)
I've actually got a FALCON board, so it's more than just an
academic interest.
Bob
