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<p>Nice! How many watts does all that stuff pull? Do you have to
worry about your heating bill while it's on?<br>
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<p>My vote is for RSTS; there are a lot of things about it that are
like Tops-10. Can't beat the BASIC. Or couldn't, anyway. I
don't know if they ever did DCL for RSTS; I wouldn't use it (I'm
saving myself for VMS)<br>
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<p>You're not allowed to run Unix unless you have a PDP-7, SIMH or
otherwise. Unix is a waste of a perfectly good 11.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/20/20 11:04 PM, Robert Armstrong
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> With all this social distancing and
staying home, I’ve been dusting off old hardware and fixing it
up. I just finished running diagnostics on a nice little
PDP-11 system. It is a -<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> PDP-11/53+ with 3.5Mb RAM in
a BA123<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> KDA50 and 2xRA73 drives<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> DELQA NI<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> CXA16 16 line mux (DHV11
clone, more or less)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> TQK70 and TK70 (probably
worthless – those things never work)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> SQ739 SCSI controller (does
both MSCP and TMSCP!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I figure I’ll use the SCSI for a CDROM
and a tape drive, maybe an Exabyte. Don’t really need more
disk space with two RA73s already, and I’m sure the SDI is
faster than the SCSI.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> So, the question is, what OS should I put
on it? RSX or RSTS? It has to be something that can make
good use of the hardware.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> No Unix, please – I’ve already got a nice
11/83 with 2.11bsd on it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Ideas?<br>
<br>
Bob<o:p></o:p></p>
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