21 Mar
2020
21 Mar
'20
4:32 a.m.
Nice!? How many watts does all that stuff pull?? Do you have to worry
about your heating bill while it's on?
My vote is for RSTS; there are a lot of things about it that are like
Tops-10.? Can't beat the BASIC.? Or couldn't, anyway.? I don't know if
they ever did DCL for RSTS; I wouldn't use it (I'm saving myself for VMS)
You're not allowed to run Unix unless you have a PDP-7, SIMH or
otherwise.? Unix is a waste of a perfectly good 11.
On 3/20/20 11:04 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
? With all this social distancing and staying home, I?ve been dusting
off old hardware and fixing it up.? I just finished running
diagnostics on a nice little PDP-11 system.? It is a -
?????????????? PDP-11/53+ with 3.5Mb RAM in a BA123
?????????????? KDA50 and 2xRA73 drives
?????????????? DELQA NI
?????????????? CXA16 16 line mux (DHV11 clone, more or less)
?????????????? TQK70 and TK70 (probably worthless ? those things never
work)
?????????????? SQ739 SCSI controller (does both MSCP and TMSCP!)
?? I figure I?ll use the SCSI for a CDROM and a tape drive, maybe an
Exabyte.? Don?t really need more disk space with two RA73s already,
and I?m sure the SDI is faster than the SCSI.
? So, the question is, what OS should I put on it?? RSX or RSTS?? It
has to be something that can make good use of the hardware.
? No Unix, please ? I?ve already got a nice 11/83 with 2.11bsd on it.
? Ideas?
Bob