21 Dec
2021
21 Dec
'21
3:30 a.m.
It's never too late to learn something about RSX.? ?
Seriously, all DEC operating systems are fair game here as they
influenced and many times took ideas from each other.
Sometimes when I'm trying to understand something in Tops-20, knowing
what VMS, RSX, RSTS and/or Tops-10 did really helps. /Really/ helps.
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On 12/20/21 9:00 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
I thought this was a question concerning VMS.
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> Johnny Billquist<bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> In RSX, /NOTYPE_AHEAD just means you don't have any typeahead. If you
> try typing something when nothing is reading, the characters are just
> thrown away. But if a read is in progress, things works just as normal.