At 8:15 PM +0200 9/1/10, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Hi. I'd like to check what, if any people (besides me) are running RSX. Either here on HECnet, or elsewhere.
Feel free to reply to me personally, or on this list. And if possible, also tell what version of RSX you are running.
Johnny
Define normally, I don't really have time for my PDP-11's any more. :-(
One HD has RSX-11M+ 4.6, and another RSX-11M 4.2, though I tend to prefer RT-11 or RSTS/E.
Zane
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I assume he meant UALR_BBS circa 1984. I believe both Sampsa and I have it running if you're curious (wopr:: and chimpy::) . You can find it around on the net...
Joe
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Saku Set l <setala at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Which BBS software this is? Is it available on the net?
Regards,
--Saku
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
A few weeks ago I found this bbs software written in DEC Fortran for VMS... I'm not sure if that's what you'd have in mind, but it seemed interesting.....
Hi,
Which BBS software this is? Is it available on the net?
Regards,
--Saku
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
A few weeks ago I found this bbs software written in DEC Fortran for VMS... I'm not sure if that's what you'd have in mind, but it seemed interesting.....
Marc Chametzky wrote:
Also, came across this on Slashdot:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/silicon-valley%E2%80%99s-dark-secret-it%E2…
How much is this true do you guys think?
I just turned 44 and it is something I worry about. I know my skills
are nowhere near as currently relevant as they once were when I was
fresh out of school. I've been working on the same product for the
past 15 years, so that has also limited my personal development. I've
been branching out a bit lately, but not as much as I could have when
I was in my teens or early twenties.
--Marc
Hi Marc,
Yes, me too - I'm 40+ and have lost some of the zeal for new tech in
recent years. However, on a positive note when I was looking around two
years ago for a developer position in bad economic times I had a couple
of good offers and now work for a company who hire people on merit
rather than age. I obviously don't know how long that will last, but so
far so good.
I think everyone, regardless of occupation, should always be mindful of
what they might do if their occupation becomes inviable. There also
appears to be less new talent coming up the ranks, well that's my
perception of the situation in the UK. For the past 15 years I have been
working with developers around the same age as me (give of take 5 years)
which might be explained by less talent coming on stream.
Mark.
Also, came across this on Slashdot: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/silicon-valley%E2%80%99s-dark-secret-it%E2…
How much is this true do you guys think?
I just turned 44 and it is something I worry about. I know my skills are nowhere near as currently relevant as they once were when I was fresh out of school. I've been working on the same product for the past 15 years, so that has also limited my personal development. I've been branching out a bit lately, but not as much as I could have when I was in my teens or early twenties.
--Marc
Will you be able to post the tarballs you received?
paul
On Aug 23, 2010, at 12:53 AM, G ran hling wrote:
Hi,
Thanks to the help of this list, and to an obviously most positive "phase of the moon", I established contact with the author in Germany. He just sent me a .tgz of each SOL-11 (47 kb) and BTN11 (18 kb), the later being the cross-assembler of his own, used to assemble the SOL-environment.
I have not yet started digging into this, but I'd like to give a greate credit to him (Nils M Holm | http://t3x.org) for making this piece of sw, and for making it available along with quite some other software for different systems. Unfortunately, most of his old productions are no longer published to the net (besides indexes of them), but he seems to have them archived himself.
He also gave me a warning that building the assembler might give some problems today, as it is written in K&R - C.
Also to you, Zane, a great thanks for helping and searching. I'll make this available to the net and/or to the HECnet as time goes by...
As for the sake of HECnet, well I've got a little more to do to get my bridge set up with a SIMH-emulated PDP as area-router, though I do actually have most pieces in place already. I'll have to use a "TapTun" interface, just like MacOS-X obviouly has to do, that remains to be fixed. In my case, running Free-BSD, but on a computer with only one ethernet-port. I've got image-files for an RSX-11 system running in SIM-H, but for this sake, I'd guess I'd prefer to build a new system from distributions, both to get double networking ports and area-router included, and also leave out some other things that are cluttered into my current images...
Besides, I intend to use the "hacked" SIM-H that ports directly into Johnny's bridge software...
Please don't expect this to happen "this week", as I'll have to tender my house a bit to start with, and that will have to be fixed before autumn comes raining and blowing. Playing with the computer is more like something to do inside during long, cold and dark winter evenings ;-)
All my best,
G ran
On 2010-08-23 05:08, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 1:02 AM +0200 8/19/10, G ran hling wrote:
Some years ago, I read some Internet writing about a SOL-11 (Small Operating Language), a Forth environment to boot and run a PDP-11.
It was written by a mr. Nils Holm in Germany.
It was by then available at:http://www.holm-und-jeschag.de/nils/comp.html
I cant find any copy of this around anywhere these days, and obviously I didn't download it myself either, guess there was just no space left on any HD in those days...
There was also a need for some assembler of Mr. Holms selection to compile this...
Does anyone have a copy archived of this little part of software for the -11?
Have you found a copy? I have a gzipped tarball containing it, and it looks like it's only 40k, so I could email it to you.
Zane
Hi,
Thanks to the help of this list, and to an obviously most positive "phase of the moon", I established contact with the author in Germany. He just sent me a .tgz of each SOL-11 (47 kb) and BTN11 (18 kb), the later being the cross-assembler of his own, used to assemble the SOL-environment.
I have not yet started digging into this, but I'd like to give a greate credit to him (Nils M Holm | http://t3x.org) for making this piece of sw, and for making it available along with quite some other software for different systems. Unfortunately, most of his old productions are no longer published to the net (besides indexes of them), but he seems to have them archived himself.
He also gave me a warning that building the assembler might give some problems today, as it is written in K&R - C.
Also to you, Zane, a great thanks for helping and searching. I'll make this available to the net and/or to the HECnet as time goes by...
As for the sake of HECnet, well I've got a little more to do to get my bridge set up with a SIMH-emulated PDP as area-router, though I do actually have most pieces in place already. I'll have to use a "TapTun" interface, just like MacOS-X obviouly has to do, that remains to be fixed. In my case, running Free-BSD, but on a computer with only one ethernet-port. I've got image-files for an RSX-11 system running in SIM-H, but for this sake, I'd guess I'd prefer to build a new system from distributions, both to get double networking ports and area-router included, and also leave out some other things that are cluttered into my current images...
Besides, I intend to use the "hacked" SIM-H that ports directly into Johnny's bridge software...
Please don't expect this to happen "this week", as I'll have to tender my house a bit to start with, and that will have to be fixed before autumn comes raining and blowing. Playing with the computer is more like something to do inside during long, cold and dark winter evenings ;-)
All my best,
G ran
On 2010-08-23 05:08, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 1:02 AM +0200 8/19/10, G ran hling wrote:
Some years ago, I read some Internet writing about a SOL-11 (Small Operating Language), a Forth environment to boot and run a PDP-11.
It was written by a mr. Nils Holm in Germany.
It was by then available at:http://www.holm-und-jeschag.de/nils/comp.html
I cant find any copy of this around anywhere these days, and obviously I didn't download it myself either, guess there was just no space left on any HD in those days...
There was also a need for some assembler of Mr. Holms selection to compile this...
Does anyone have a copy archived of this little part of software for the -11?
Have you found a copy? I have a gzipped tarball containing it, and it looks like it's only 40k, so I could email it to you.
Zane
At 1:02 AM +0200 8/19/10, G ran hling wrote:
Some years ago, I read some Internet writing about a SOL-11 (Small Operating Language), a Forth environment to boot and run a PDP-11.
It was written by a mr. Nils Holm in Germany.
It was by then available at:http://www.holm-und-jeschag.de/nils/comp.html
I cant find any copy of this around anywhere these days, and obviously I didn't download it myself either, guess there was just no space left on any HD in those days...
There was also a need for some assembler of Mr. Holms selection to compile this...
Does anyone have a copy archived of this little part of software for the -11?
Have you found a copy? I have a gzipped tarball containing it, and it looks like it's only 40k, so I could email it to you.
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Photographer |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| My flickr Photostream |
| http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |
I'm pretty sure I have a copy in my personal archive, but I won't be able to
check until I get the computer it's on back up which will be sometime next
week.
Zane
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, G ran hling wrote:
Hi,
Some years ago, I read some Internet writing about a SOL-11 (Small Operating Language), a Forth environment to boot and run a PDP-11.
It was written by a mr. Nils Holm in Germany.
It was by then available at:http://www.holm-und-jeschag.de/nils/comp.html
I cant find any copy of this around anywhere these days, and obviously I didn't download it myself either, guess there was just no space left on any HD in those days...
There was also a need for some assembler of Mr. Holms selection to compile this...
Does anyone have a copy archived of this little part of software for the -11?
Best regards,
G ran
