>Megan wrote:
> Thank you for pointing this out... if, in fact, this is as it appears
> (and I just down-loaded the rt image from gatekeeper to read the license),
> then we seem to be able to run RT-11 V5.3 or earlier, RSTS V9.6 or
> earlier, or RSX-11M V4.3 or earlier. If so, and I want to confirm
> this first, I have a copy of the V5.3 distribution of RT-11 I could
> make available...
Jerome Fine replies:
That would be great. Are you referring to both the binaries and the
update package or just the binaries?
> >Does anyone have such disk images available? And could they share them?
> >(Unless I'm very much mistaken, it's legal under the emulator license)
> It sure seems to be... I thought it used to state (for example) an
> execute-only (RT^2) version of RT V4.0... This is a nice development.
>
> I'll check it out today...
>
> Megan Gentry
> Former RT-11 Developer
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I also think I read that someone else may have a set of RX50 diskettes
as well. Would that qualify? And how should V5.3 of RT-11 be made
available - assuming that the license form which I have seen is the real thing?
And are there any restrictions implicit in the utilities which would be used
to transfer V5.3 into the environment of the OS in which the emulator
would be run?
Plus, I understand that the Bob Supnick emulator - which is what Mentec
does not bother to name by name is what the Mentec license refers to.
Does anyone know if there is a version which runs under MS-DOS or
Windows 95/98? I realize that the Bob Supnick emulator is written in
"C" and normally runs under UNIX. Does that mean that it can't run
under MS-DOS, or is it just that no one has ever tried?
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
RT-11/TSX-PLUS User/Addict
Year 2000 Solutions for Legacy RT-11 Applications
(Sources not always required)
Received on Thu Aug 27 1998 - 21:27:34 BST