[HECnet] Can we hook this up to a VAX or something?

[Steve Davidson]

Johnny,

Remember that we are talking about 1977-1980 (or so) with version 3x.
RT-11 with a few drivers and utilities fits just fine on an RX01.   While
not very fast it was so much better than the TU-58!

-Steve

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On 2011-08-24 02:21, Steve Davidson wrote:
I'm sure.

A bit surprised, since the RX01 is a really small device, and squeezing
in RT-11, in addition to VMB, as a bare minimum needed for a system, is
something of a miracle.

Hmm, do anyone have an RX01 image for the VAX-11/78x available online?

	Johnny


-Steve


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On 2011-08-24 01:45, Steve Davidson wrote:
It is a RX01.   The front end runs RT-11 on an 11/03.

Are you sure about the RT-11 part? I think it just used the RT-11 file

system, but the actual thing running inside was something small and 
dedicated.

The 86x0 machines FE runs RT-11, however. You can even get into the
RT-11 environment on the machine, and use the RT-11 programs in there.

	Johnny


-Steve

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On 2011-08-23 19:16, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:
Correct, an RX02 floppy with a formatted capacity of 512 kB IIRC.

Hmm. I thought it was an RX01. Capacity, however, is 128K for RX01 
and

256K for RX02.

	Johnny

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Verzonden: 23 augustus 2011 19:11

Hm... didn't the 780 use an 8 inch floppy for console boot device?

	paul

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