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From: ted@netcom.UUCP (Ted Sarbin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.rsts
Subject: Re: RSTS to VMS Migration - Help
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Date: 21 Mar 90 04:11:32 GMT
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In article <1454@mountn.dec.com> minow@mountn.UUCP (Martin Minow) writes:
>In article <9214@shlump.nac.dec.com> thompson@cvg.enet.dec.com () writes:
>>> >> (7 Year veteran of RSTS, since rev 6C to 8.0).
>>> >> (10 Year veteran of RSTS, since 7.0 to 9.7)
>>> >(`Ready' since RSTS/E V06A-02.)
>>> (V05C - V7.0)
>> ... V4A
>
>I think I still have some V4A-12 tapes (Dec- and paper-) in the basement
>somewhere.  I also remember being looked down upon because I wasn't around
>for V3C (with 48-bit floating point).
>
>Martin Minow
>minow@thundr.enet.dec.com

I was around for V3C, also V2A, and even V1B.  A DOS-11 sysgen was a
real advance from our original sysgen method.  RSTS-11, customized for
a particular installation, was assembled on a PDP-10, the binary punched
out on paper tape, loaded on a PDP-11/20 using the paper tape software
system, and transfered to DECtape.  Then the DECtape was shipped to the
customer.  Any configuration change, including the amount of memory,
required a new tape from Maynard.

	However, I can't claim to be an "original" RSTS user.  At least,
Nathan Teichholtz, George Berry, Tim Hart, Tom Evans, Tom Griffiths,
and Jeff Scott preceeded me.