Here we go with Microcode again...

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Tue May 19 16:25:30 1998

> I believe it was RT-11 with special application code for starting and
> monitoring the 780. The 730 and 750 had minimal microcode and used a
> tu58 to load the remainder or overlay existing ucode to patch it.
>
>
> Allison
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>

Nah, it was just a special stripped down loader that was written for the
11/780. It used RT11 disk format though.

The 11/790, er the 8600/8650 used full blown RT11 on the disks, though.
I ran RT11 games on the T11 once during installation of a machine.

Bill

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