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From: setala@jyu.fi (Saku Setala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: PDP-11's
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.192145.11333@jyu.fi>
Date: 31 Mar 91 19:21:45 GMT
Sender: setala@jyu.fi (Saku Setala)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Lines: 42


 
 
  About PDP-11's...
 
  Nice to see that there's still so much PDP-11's in
  (hobbyist) use. We have also one PDP-11/23 Plus running
  in our cellar (with 2 Megabytes of RAM, four RL02-drives
  and fourteen RS-lines). It's currently running RSX-11M 
  (V4.1 BL35). Naturally we are interested about any
  PD or alike software we can find for it. So is there any kind
  of DECUS-server in net containing any RSX or RT-11
  stuff ? At least here in Finland, prices of local
  Decus are too much for us, and as our machine has
  neither magtape unit nor floppy-drives, it's impossible
  to order from them.
    We have DECUS-C (I don't remember the version) in our machine,
  but it's probably lacking some header files like cx.h. 
  I want to know how to use some system routines, e.g. to read and
  set the UIC, to spawn the command to DCL or MCR, how to
  handle wildcards from C and some other useful routines.

    I have also heard that it's possible to get SCSI-controllers
  to PDP-11's but is it possible for this model (23 plus), which
  has "Extended 22-bit LSI-bus" instead of Unibus ?
  And is there any software support in RSX-11 for SCSI-disks ?
  (I think RL02's are consuming too much electricity for
  that 10 MB capacity).
    I'm also interested to get any newer operating system,
  like RSX-11M-Plus or some version of Unix (V.? or BSD 2.?),
  but do they (unix) run on this model, which doesn't have separate
  I- and D-space ?
 
  Our PDP-11/23+ (called Elukka) is answering in number
  +358-0-701-666-0 with USRobo Courier HST Dual Standard
  (V.22-V.32, 8-N-1 24H). We welcome all guest users.
 
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