[HECnet] RSTS/E + DECNET 4.1

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

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