RSX-11 Disk Images anyone?

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue May 5 21:49:07 1998

<Whether the distributed monitors and drivers are enough to run it
<depends strongly on your application! Under an emulator - where

If your developing with RT-11 for a specific task then sysgening is
needed. If you need to run BASIC, DECUS-C, MicroPower Pascal, write
assembly code files or edit text then the stock monitor are just fine.

Sysgening to simply move to a different varient of PDP-11 cpu or disk
however is not required. The typical example of sysgening RT-11 I've
done was to use a console that wasn't DL (standard PDP-11 serial line
unit) compatable.

RT-11 was designed as both a development enviornment and a realtime
executive for embedded applications. It's pretty flexible and small
so it's good for lots of other stuff. It weakness (there is one) is
that it does not use a scatter-gather map for storage so storage space
can be poorly used due to device fragmentation.

<I interpret "no source code" quite differently, mainly because I have
<the source kits!

Same here, V4, V5.0, V5.1, V5.4 I may even have 3.xx. Heck I've been
running RT11 since '79 on one thing or another Q-bus.


Allison
Received on Tue May 05 1998 - 21:49:07 BST