[HECnet] RSX or RSTS

[Thomas DeBellis]

Nice!  How many watts does all that stuff pull?  Do you have to worry 
about your heating bill while it's on?

My vote is for RSTS; there are a lot of things about it that are like 
Tops-10.  Can't beat the BASIC.  Or couldn't, anyway.  I don't know if 
they ever did DCL for RSTS; I wouldn't use it (I'm saving myself for VMS)

You're not allowed to run Unix unless you have a PDP-7, SIMH or 
otherwise.  Unix is a waste of a perfectly good 11.

On 3/20/20 11:04 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>
>   With all this social distancing and staying home, I’ve been dusting 
> off old hardware and fixing it up.  I just finished running 
> diagnostics on a nice little PDP-11 system.  It is a -
>
>                PDP-11/53+ with 3.5Mb RAM in a BA123
>
>                KDA50 and 2xRA73 drives
>
>                DELQA NI
>
>                CXA16 16 line mux (DHV11 clone, more or less)
>
>                TQK70 and TK70 (probably worthless – those things never 
> work)
>
>                SQ739 SCSI controller (does both MSCP and TMSCP!)
>
>    I figure I’ll use the SCSI for a CDROM and a tape drive, maybe an 
> Exabyte.  Don’t really need more disk space with two RA73s already, 
> and I’m sure the SDI is faster than the SCSI.
>
>   So, the question is, what OS should I put on it?  RSX or RSTS?  It 
> has to be something that can make good use of the hardware.
>
>   No Unix, please – I’ve already got a nice 11/83 with 2.11bsd on it.
>
>   Ideas?
>
> Bob
>
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