In reading the factual portion of this RSTS birthday page, I noticed a
reference
to a "History of RSTS" back in the mid-1980s. Does anyone have a copy of
this
or know what this reference contains? If such a thing exists, does anyone
know
where a copy can be obtained?
Ashley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Koning" <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: RSTS/E and PDP 11/23
> >>>>> "Ashley" == Ashley Carder <wacarder_at_usit.net> writes:
>
> Ashley> Paul, you probably know the answer to this. I've seen this
> Ashley> site before and wondered where the line is that separates
> Ashley> fact from fiction. Somewhere around 1990, obviously, but the
> Ashley> line has been craftily blurred by the author of this 100th
> Ashley> birthday thing. I have done studied my DEC / RSTS / PDP-11
> Ashley> history enough to pick out anything that is fictitious prior
> Ashley> to stuff in the early 90s. Is everything up to 1990 fact?
>
> >>> http://www.silverware.co.uk/rsts_80th_birthday.htm
>
> As far I can tell, yes, pretty much. That fits, because it was
> written for the 20th birthday bash.
>
> There may be some historical errors. For example, I don't know if
> RSTS has any relationship to IOX. I rather doubt it (but I've never
> seen the IOX sources, and I only barely glanced at the docs around 30
> years ago...) The cultural heritage is TSS-8, from what I've heard,
> though I can't confirm that from personal knowledge either.
>
> The change from .CIL to .SIL happened with RSTS V5B...
>
> TECO did appear -- as a real RTS, not as two Basic programs -- in
> V5A...
>
> Some of the fantasy items have a connection to reality:
> - There wasn't a Unix RTS, but Bob Fraser ported csh to RSTS.
> - Basic for RT11 supported line numbers up to 65532.
> - Directory and data cache can be displayed with SDA.
>
> paul
>
>
Received on Tue May 18 2004 - 09:39:09 BST