VAX collectors attention

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyn.ml.org>
Date: Mon Nov 30 21:25:11 1998

> >IIRC, it's actaully a PDP-11 and the OS is a munged version of RT-11.
>
> The filesystem it uses on TU58's is the same as RT-11's filesystem.
> That doesn't mean it's running RT-11 :-). A VAX-11/780
> has an LSI-11 as the console processor, it uses the RT-11 filesystem
> on the boot floppies, and that doesn't mean it's running RT-11 :-).
>
> On the other hand, VAX 8600 series CPU's use a PRO 380 console
> running an operating system that *is* derived from RT-11. (The
> VENUS conditionals still abound in the RT-11 sources, even
> though AFAIK a build hasn't been done in over a decade.)

I thought the 8600's used Pro350's when I worked on them.
Some of the later 8000 series used Pro380's, I was told.

Bill
Received on Mon Nov 30 1998 - 21:25:11 GMT