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From: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: RSX questions
Keywords: RSX, C, multiprocessors
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Date: 8 Feb 88 22:45:38 GMT
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Reply-To: cetron@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
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	As chair of the PDP-11 Working Group of DECUS, which is working
closely with Digital on the resurgence of the 11, I have a rather unique
perspective to answer some of your questions. (and as for RSX - I'm still
on the RSX SIG steering committee, am still a wizard emeritus, and have
been known to lead various forays against VAX magic sessions at DECUS
symposia - remember the chesire cat on a noose? or the white elephants,
or the.... :-) oh my....)


In article <9768@udenva.cair.du.edu> news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) writes:
>I have three questions about RSX:
>
>	1> Who, if anyone, has a C compiler for RSX besides DECUS and
>Whitesmith? At the last DECUS symp. I attended (Nashville), I heard
>that DEC was working on a PDP-11 C, that was due in about a year. Has
>anyone heard more about it? (oops, VAX question - Is there a C++ compiler
>

I think that you can probably start holding your breath, the rumours
are that it is starting to come together - all those who want it and would
buy it should send me e-mail, I will collect them and personally deliver them
to the head of PDP languages - and believe me, mail TALKS.

>	2> MDB/Lockheed have an RSX (co-?)multiprocessor board that runs
>in the backplane of a MVII. Apparently it has local on-board memory and
>maps into part of the MVII's memory. Several can be in one system. What
>
	Yea, I've heard of it. And I've heard of some other MDB products and
I know of at least one MDB employee who will remain nameless... I'd wait for
the dec supported kxj-11 Coprocessor project (in RSX and RT flavors..) I've
played with it and it looks great....and some postulated maybe sortof possible
hypothetical stuff which is easy to add on give rise to RSX-11S+ (basically a
run-time only diskless version of 11M+)

>	3> Is there interest in adding a newsgroup to the net for PDP
>users? We PDP fans are a loyal, fanatical group, but we need to band to-

	I thought there was an info-pdp mailing list be I've always missed
out on were it is....rats, I'd love to join it.

	But meanwhile, Those 'loyal, fanatical' fans should keep those cards
and letters coming - I hand carry ALL of them (besides the obvious dec-bashing
for the sake of bashing ones) direct to senior MSD management.

-ed cetron
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