>William King wrote:
> I recently acquired a load of 9 track tapes from eBay. What a deal, I only
> paid 1 cent for a trunk load of tapes. In there, I found an original DEC
> RSX11M+ (3.0) distribution, several DECUS RSX SIG tapes from the fall of
> 1981 to the spring of 1987 and a bunch of other miscellaneous tapes!
Jerome Fine replies:
As mentioned from another reply, Tim Shoppa probably has those DECUS
RSX-11 tapes already available for download.
But the RSX11M+ (V3.00) may be OK to make available for download
as well. Zane, do you have a copy of the hobby license from Mentec as
to which versions of RSX-11 are allowed?
> If copies are not available elsewhere, I was planning on duping the RSX SIG
> tapes and putting them up on my www site. I won't be putting the RSX
> distribution online due to the copyright infringement problems :-(
V5.03 of RT-11 has already been put online for distribution. If V3.00 of RSX11M+
that you have is allowed in the Mentec license for hobby users, then it should
be possible to arrange to have that license attached the the RSX-11 version
that you have just like with the RT-11 V5.03 distribution. Since I use only RT-11
myself, I can't help with the RSX-11 software, but I am sure that many others
who do use RSX-11 would appreciate your doing so.
> I have a PDP-11 running RT-11 (v5.03) and a uVAX-III running VMS v5.5. I can
> hook my 9 track tape drive (TS05) up to either of them. I'd bet VMS would be
> the better bet, but I'm not sure about the best way to dup them so that they
> would be useful for the rest of the world.
As I stated above, V5.03 of RT-11 (thank you Megan Gentry for making it
available) was made available for download almost three years ago.
Look at:
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/digital/sim/software/
the actual file is:
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/digital/sim/software/rtv53swre.tar.Z
for how V5.03 of RT-11 was done.
In addition, it has also been cross-posted to:
ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/pub/PDP-11/Sims/Supnik_2.3/software/
but the filename used is:
ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/pub/PDP-11/Sims/Supnik_2.3/software/rtv53swre.tar.gz
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
Received on Thu Jul 19 2001 - 08:50:38 BST