>Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > By the way, for myself, I would VERY much appreciate
> > being in touch with all individuals who have a copy of the
> > RT-11 Freeware CD V2.0 so that we might exchange
> > information about RT-11. Tim Shoppa felt that he might
> > be violating privacy concerns if he made the names, of those
> > who ordered the CD, available.
> I can appreciate Tim's discretion, but I don't mind it being known
> that I ordered a copy from him.
Jerome Fine replies:
Is that OK just for myself or among others who are like minded?
If the latter, then RT-11 announcements will be sent to all 4 or 5
of you at the same time - makes it easier. I think Tim said he sold
about 40 of the RT-11 Freeware CD, so many more names to go.
> As I stated recently, I used to make my living with RT-11, but am
> now merely a hobbyist. I happen to have a real distro of v5.3 on RX50
> media from the old days, plus some v4.x stuff on RK05 cartridge and
> probably some (original) 2.x stuff on RX01.
My legal and licensed version is more recent. I also acquired
some RK05 packs with old RT-11 distributions that I hope
to make available as soon as I can find a controller for a Qbus
or someone with both a working RK05 and something more
recent such as an RL02. From the RL02, the final step is to
make copies available via a CD.
> > PLUS, as for TSX-PLUS, I am going to try again to knock
> > at the door of S&H to see what they may consider for
> > hobby users.
> Thank you.
No promises, but I will try again soon!
At this point, I also hope to have a user controlled and
contributed "Classiccmp RT-11 Bug List" as opposed
http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RT-11/
to the secret "Mentec RT-11 Bug List". The first two
bugs are very benign -
(a) MACRO.SAV does not have 4 digit years and
(b) The reported "Elapsed time" uses "ticks" after the decimal
point rather than hundredths of a second.
Although these two bugs are not show stoppers, and
perhaps because they are not show stoppers, I can't
see Mentec being very upset. And most users will not
care either. But once it becomes established that users
do have their own bug list, then I am hoping that there
will be contributions.
At this point, I am proceeding on the assumption that
Mentec will likely take many more years - if ever -
to allow even V5.06 of RT-11 to be hobby, let alone
V5.07 of RT-11.
BUT, since V5.03 of RT-11 is sufficient to do almost
everything that is done under V5.07, it should not be
difficult to keep interest up (if it can be done at all)
using just V5.03 at this time.
If you have any contributions for the bug list, that would be
extremely helpful.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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Received on Wed Apr 24 2002 - 22:27:08 BST