How hard is getting DECNET to run on these though?
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On 11 Jun 2013, at 10:10, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Got some spare cycles/RAM on one of my boxes, would be fun to run TOPS-20 or Ultrix with DECNET?
the PANDA distribution of TOPS-20 work OOTB.
Anyone got a working image / HOWTO on getting this going?
Ultrix isn't hard to get running. I can toss an image up somewhere sometime soon.
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Got some spare cycles/RAM on one of my boxes, would be fun to run TOPS-20 or Ultrix with DECNET?
the PANDA distribution of TOPS-20 work OOTB.
Anyone got a working image / HOWTO on getting this going?
Ultrix isn't hard to get running. I can toss an image up somewhere sometime soon.
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
mobile +961 788 10537
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Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
Got some spare cycles/RAM on one of my boxes, would be fun to run TOPS-20 or Ultrix with DECNET?
Anyone got a working image / HOWTO on getting this going?
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
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Yeah but he didn't store the file names in one of the rad50 schemes.
Clem
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2013-06-10 23:39, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
On Jun 10, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
El 10/06/2013, a les 23:17, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> va escriure:
I think I read somewhere than the inspiration for the CP/M commands was
RT-11, not TOPS-10. But, anyway, the RT-11 commands _are_ inspired by
TOPS-10, which. by the way, sound a little bit like OS/8... :)
I haven't read the article (yet), however I'm pretty sure I've seen in the past that CP/M was indeed inspired by TOPS-10, and nothing else.
God knows if I can dig up any sources of that, though...
The wikipedia is not a 100% reliable source, but...
"CP/M's command line interface was patterned after the operating systems from Digital Equipment, such as RT-11 for the PDP-11and OS/8 for the PDP-8."
I don't know OS/8. But pre-DCL RT-11 (for example, V2) had a command language very similar to that of TOPS-10. For that matter, you can still see it today in the RT11 RTS that comes with RSTS/E (not surprising because that was written by Anton Chernoff, who also worked on RT11-FB V2 among other things).
Think pre-DCL RT-11, on a 12-bit architecture, and you have almost every detail of OS/8 pat down. :-)
Johnny
El 11/06/2013, a les 0:06, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> va escriure:
Think pre-DCL RT-11, on a 12-bit architecture, and you have almost every detail of OS/8 pat down. :-)
And two-character file extensions :) Just like the first computer I put my hands on back in High School (a Motorola exorCiser running MDOS... which can be emulated nowadays btw).
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
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On 2013-06-10 23:39, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
On Jun 10, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
El 10/06/2013, a les 23:17, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> va escriure:
I think I read somewhere than the inspiration for the CP/M commands was
RT-11, not TOPS-10. But, anyway, the RT-11 commands _are_ inspired by
TOPS-10, which. by the way, sound a little bit like OS/8... :)
I haven't read the article (yet), however I'm pretty sure I've seen in the past that CP/M was indeed inspired by TOPS-10, and nothing else.
God knows if I can dig up any sources of that, though...
The wikipedia is not a 100% reliable source, but...
"CP/M's command line interface was patterned after the operating systems from Digital Equipment, such as RT-11 for the PDP-11and OS/8 for the PDP-8."
I don't know OS/8. But pre-DCL RT-11 (for example, V2) had a command language very similar to that of TOPS-10. For that matter, you can still see it today in the RT11 RTS that comes with RSTS/E (not surprising because that was written by Anton Chernoff, who also worked on RT11-FB V2 among other things).
Think pre-DCL RT-11, on a 12-bit architecture, and you have almost every detail of OS/8 pat down. :-)
Johnny
On 2013-06-10 23:20, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
El 10/06/2013, a les 23:17, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> va escriure:
I think I read somewhere than the inspiration for the CP/M commands was
RT-11, not TOPS-10. But, anyway, the RT-11 commands _are_ inspired by
TOPS-10, which. by the way, sound a little bit like OS/8... :)
I haven't read the article (yet), however I'm pretty sure I've seen in the past that CP/M was indeed inspired by TOPS-10, and nothing else.
God knows if I can dig up any sources of that, though...
The wikipedia is not a 100% reliable source, but...
"CP/M's command line interface was patterned after the operating systems from Digital Equipment, such as RT-11 for the PDP-11and OS/8 for the PDP-8."
Yeah, in this case I'd take Wikipedia with a large grain of salt...
Actually, also, if you look further down the Wikipedia article on CP/M, you'll find this:
"Various aspects of CP/M were influenced by the TOPS-10 operating system of the DECsystem-10 mainframe computer, which Kildall had used as a development environment."
Isn't it wonderful how you'll find contradictory information even within the same article. This latter quote however, provides references...
Johnny
On Jun 10, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
El 10/06/2013, a les 23:17, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> va escriure:
I think I read somewhere than the inspiration for the CP/M commands was
RT-11, not TOPS-10. But, anyway, the RT-11 commands _are_ inspired by
TOPS-10, which. by the way, sound a little bit like OS/8... :)
I haven't read the article (yet), however I'm pretty sure I've seen in the past that CP/M was indeed inspired by TOPS-10, and nothing else.
God knows if I can dig up any sources of that, though...
The wikipedia is not a 100% reliable source, but...
"CP/M's command line interface was patterned after the operating systems from Digital Equipment, such as RT-11 for the PDP-11and OS/8 for the PDP-8."
I don't know OS/8. But pre-DCL RT-11 (for example, V2) had a command language very similar to that of TOPS-10. For that matter, you can still see it today in the RT11 RTS that comes with RSTS/E (not surprising because that was written by Anton Chernoff, who also worked on RT11-FB V2 among other things).
paul
El 10/06/2013, a les 23:17, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> va escriure:
I think I read somewhere than the inspiration for the CP/M commands was
RT-11, not TOPS-10. But, anyway, the RT-11 commands _are_ inspired by
TOPS-10, which. by the way, sound a little bit like OS/8... :)
I haven't read the article (yet), however I'm pretty sure I've seen in the past that CP/M was indeed inspired by TOPS-10, and nothing else.
God knows if I can dig up any sources of that, though...
The wikipedia is not a 100% reliable source, but...
"CP/M's command line interface was patterned after the operating systems from Digital Equipment, such as RT-11 for the PDP-11and OS/8 for the PDP-8."
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
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On 2013-06-10 23:06, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
El 10/06/2013, a les 18:25, Bill Pechter <pechter at gmail.com
<mailto:pechter at gmail.com>> va escriure:
Please... correct the history.
What are the errors?
I think I read somewhere than the inspiration for the CP/M commands was
RT-11, not TOPS-10. But, anyway, the RT-11 commands _are_ inspired by
TOPS-10, which. by the way, sound a little bit like OS/8... :)
I haven't read the article (yet), however I'm pretty sure I've seen in the past that CP/M was indeed inspired by TOPS-10, and nothing else.
God knows if I can dig up any sources of that, though...
Johnny