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From: mcculley@alien.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: RSX -- one of the best?
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Date: 25 May 91 03:30:43 GMT
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In article <41618@genrad.UUCP>, mas@genrad.com (Mark A. Swanson) writes...
>However, the killers for our use was the fact that RSX had no support for
>TCP/IP (and for quite a while little for Ethernet), and poor C compilers
>which made it difficult to work with in the context of larger systems.  
> 
>	Mark Swanson

There is (finally) a fairly recent release of Digital's PDP-11 C compiler, and
there were previously C implementations for RSX from other sources.  (In fact,
wasn't there one time when the only C compiler was for PDPs, if not RSX? :-)

I know that the TCP/IP support has never been a Digital-developed product, but
I do know that there have been a couple of vendors supplying TCP/IP that ran
under RSX.

Of course, these tidbits are probably no help now, but at least they're a sign
that the product ain't dead yet...