[HECnet] RSTS/E + DECNET 4.1

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

On Oct 31, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

On 2012-10-31 18:58, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:

On Oct 30, 2012, at 1:06 AM, John Wilson wrote:

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>

I had a PDT-11/150 many years ago, mid-80s.   It was kinda fun, but
also kinda pointless.   The only thing you can run on it is RT-11.

I had one too back then and had a blast!   RT-11 is terrific (infinitely
better than contemporary microcomputer OSes), and anyway a 150 will run
pretty much anything an 11/03 will run (but with 30 KW of memory instead of
just 28) so it's really pretty flexible.   I wrote a FORTH-79 system on mine ...

FWIW, for those who like Forth, there's a Forth implementation available as a run-time system on RSTS/E.   It's part of the unsupported stuff on V10.1 (and possibly somewhat earlier, maybe as early as V9.0, I forgot).   I did the port; I used it among other things for implementing an interactive crash dump analyzer *very* loosely modeled on VMS "SDA".

Speaking of Forth, there is also FiG-Forth. It runs under RSX, RT-11 and standalone. I would assume it should work fine under RSTS/E as well, based on that, but I don't know for sure.

Can be found on MIM::DU:[FORTH]

Forth.rts is based on Fig-Forth (1980 edition), with substantial changes.   

	paul