[HECnet] RSX or RSTS

[Johnny Billquist]

Thomas, you are way behind the curve...

With RSTS/E V8, DCL became sortof usable, and with V9, DCL became the 
standard command line interpreter. V10 made it smell even more like VMS.
You have account privileges very similar to VMS, and the RSTS/E BACKUP 
is even more or less compatible with VMS BACKUP. And I can't even 
remember what else was stuffed in there in the later versions. Paul 
should be able to fill in the blanks...

Basic started being almost hidden away...

   Johnny

On 2020-03-21 04:32, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
> 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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