[HECnet] RT-11 on a PDP-11/10

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Aug 25 20:07:07 PDT 2015


  Very nice!  It looks like Steve's got you covered on the FORTRAN OTS
issue.

  I recently got my 11/05 running too (same machine, as you know), also
RT-11 but v5.3.  It's got an RK05 and an RX01.  It's a really fun
system.  It is my oldest PDP-11.

                -Dave

On 08/25/2015 06:45 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Hi all. Update have an 11/10, that was recently powered on again for the
> first time in I don't know when. After some fiddling with the RX01
> disks, we put an RL11 and an RL02 on it. Lots of space, I know. :-)
> Also, we have RT-11 running on it. And for fun, we wanted to run the
> original Tetris. But here is the catch - Tetris is using some
> instructions that the 11/10 don't have. (I would guess EIS stuff.)
> 
> Do anyone know if there is some software emulation of these instructions
> that can be added to RT-11 in order to be able to run such programs?
> 
> RT-11 V5.5 by the way, if anyone wants to know. And no, I am not sitting
> by the machine, or trying to play with it personally. It's other people
> at Update. But an 11/10 is cute.
> And we did boot the RL02 on Magica (11/70) to check that there is
> nothing wrong with the binary, and it runs fine on that large machine.
> 
>     Johnny
> 


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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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