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Subject: Re: DECmate III
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From: SLSW2@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie)
Date: 30 Aug 90 09:52:03 MDT
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In article <1990Aug28.170919.21475@athena.mit.edu>, infinity@athena.mit.edu (An-Jen Tai) writes:
> In particular, I am interested in
> communications software and whether DECMATE III is an IBM-clone and run
> MS-DOS stuff.  
> 

Wow! A DECmate III! I'm jealous; I've only got a II. Your box is much smaller
than mine.

The DECmate III is not PC compatible. It is the end of the PDP-8 line, a
venerable line of minis and micros stretching all the way back to 1965.
Although DEC made a DOS coprocessor for it, I do not believe it was ever
IBM compatible. I've never used the DOS coprocessor, but the CP/M 
coprocessor is very nice.

If you're interested in using the PDP-8 side of the machine, you can get
OS/278 from DECUS. OS/278 is the version of OS/8 for the DECmates; that
what I'm using on my DECmate II even as I type. OS/8 eventually became
RT-11, which inspired CP/M that was eventually translated into DOS...

KERMIT is available for OS/278 (again, I'm running it even as I type), but
it's a bit difficult to get there in the first place; I was only able to
do it by converting it from CP/M to WPS and then from WPS to OS/278.
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