[HECnet] RSX or RSTS

[Steve Davidson]

Bob,

With two drives why not put both operating systems on.  One on each that way you get to play until YOU decide which you like better!

-Steve

SF:IP2

> On Mar 20, 2020, at 23:04, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
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>   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.
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>   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.
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>   No Unix, please – I’ve already got a nice 11/83 with 2.11bsd on it.
>  
>   Ideas?
> 
> Bob
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