[HECnet] This is probably been asked already but....

On 07/02/2012 08:23 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: Who was your "sidekick"? I can't recall his name, but he's the one across from you on the right of the exhibit space who ran the Straight 8 system and its relatives. Oh, that was Dave Gesswein. His exhibit area was simply across the aisle from mine. His Straight-8 was awesome. It was time to move five years ago, but there are reasons... and more of them. :-( As for operating systems, can you, in your spare time present me a list of them, off list? Sure. Some time ago, John Wilson, confirmed for me that his E11 systems can be configured to accept modules that would look to the PDP-11 OS running as if it were talking to something specialized, and not originally part of the regular PDP-11 series of modules. (Of course that's my phrasing and how I heard or read about.) That's how I would start, but I'm not sure if his program could be told to work as if it were a J11 setup or any of the others. Hmm. I believe it might be possible to convince (or confuse) E11 that it is actually one of those, and running something along the lines of the appropriate R* OS from DEC, That might be possible. That might also be possible with simh, given that the source code is available and it compiles on most anything. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA