>I was recently told that DEC sold an RSX-11M emulator that run as a process
>on VMS for people who had old RSX code they wanted to run. Is this true?
Yes, it is. This is the start of the SPD (see
http://www.mentec.com/SPDS/vaxrsx.html for the whole thing):
SPD 26.73.08
VAX-11 RSX, Version 2.5 is a member of a family of operating system and other software products produced by
Mentec Inc. for the PDP-11 family of computers. It is available from Mentec Inc. or Digital Equipment
Corporation subject to a software license issued according to standard terms and conditions.
Description:
Overview
VAX-11 RSX is an emulator of the RSX Operating System family which executes on all VAX systems. VAX-11
RSX runs in compatibility mode on processors that support a PDP-11 instruction set subset in hardware or
microcode, and also runs on processors without this support by providing its own software emulation of the same
PDP-11 instruction set subset.
VAX-11 RSX provides special capabilities which enable PDP-11 users to develop programs for execution in the
following environments:
VMS compatibility mode (hardware-supported or software-emulated)
RSX-11M-PLUS
RSX-11M
RSX-11S
Micro/RSX
VAX-11 RSX also allows for the migration of many existing RSX applications to VMS.
>And if so is it part of the hobbiest license?
No, it isn't, though last time I checked it was part of the CSLG.
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Received on Wed Jun 23 1999 - 19:59:00 BST