[HECnet] RSTS/E + DECNET 4.1

Steve Davidson jeep at scshome.net
Wed Oct 31 11:14:23 PDT 2012


The FORTH run-time system is available on PLUTO:: (RSTS/E V10.1)   Now
that the Internet has returned I should boot the machine up.

-Steve 

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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 13:58
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] RSTS/E + DECNET 4.1


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".

	paul



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