[HECnet] Tops-20 ANONYMOUS FAL Preliminary Testing Results/DAP Query

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2019-12-21 01:07, Bill Cunningham wrote:
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> On 12/20/2019 5:44 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2019-12-20 23:00, Paul Koning wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 20, 2019, at 3:46 PM, Lee Gleason <lee.gleason at comcast.net> 
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> -----Original Message----- Do I have any volunteers who operate 
>>>>> something besides VMS?  I'd be interested in RSX(+), IAS, RSTS and 
>>>>> OS-8.  They never did DECnet on RT-11, did they?
>>>>
>>>> If you run across anyone with DECET-IAS, please let me know...
>>>
>>> Did that exist?  I'm fairly sure it did.  What about DECnet for 
>>> RSX-11/D?  Not so sure about that one.
>>
>> Both existed. See the spd at http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/spd/
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>>   Johnny
>>
> Nice link! Tell me if one OS was going to be learned, I would like 
> anyone out there who knows, what would it be? RSX RT DECnet VMS or what? 
> Taking into consideration, easiness to learn because it would take some 
> time. And Availability or modernized tools like VMS has of example, TCP/IP.

DECnet is not an operating system. And VMS is obviously not for the PDP-11.

If you want both DECnet and TCP/IP, then the choice is essentially only 
RSX-11M-PLUS.

But apart from that, it depends on what you prefer. RSTE/E is more pure 
timesharing, RT-11 is more pure realtime and minimalistic, RSX-11D and 
IAS are sortof timesharing with realtime with more of a focus on 
timesharing and large systems. RSX-11M is reatime with timesharing, and 
a little primitive in some corners, while RSX-11M-PLUS is essentially 
RSX-11M with lots of extra bells and whistles added, so still realtime 
with timesharing, but friendlier, more efficient, and more capable.

In the end I would probably boil it down to either RSTS/E or 
RSX-11M-PLUS, depending on preferences and what tools you want.

For most parts, there are more and more capable tools for RSX-11M-PLUS, 
but RSTS/E is probably still a bit friendlier.

If you know VMS, then in many ways RSTS/E will be rather familiar at a 
user level, but RSX will be more familiar if you start digging under the 
hood.

   Johnny

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