> >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.
>
Of course you could run VMS v3.5 and an 11/780.
The instructions for compatibility were built in to the 11/7xx series
and the emulation which came lator was an unbundling of the features
which were in VMS 2.x and 3.x and the older 11/780 through 8650.
Bill
Received on Thu Jun 24 1999 - 05:24:05 BST