Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.os.rsts Subject: Re: Anyone out there? Keywords: rsts Message-ID: <6275@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 22 Mar 89 20:33:21 GMT References: <1245@sagepub.UUCP> <6710@bunny.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 36 In article <6710@bunny.UUCP>, sg04@bunny.UUCP (Steven Gutfreund) writes: > I used to work in the RSTS/e operating system group in versions 6 and 7. > I have not seen RSTS/e since I stopped working for DEC. I'm curious, > what version did RSTS/e get up to and what is DEC's level of support > these days? The last time I worked with RSTS/E was on version 6C. I remember because our system said "Welcome to RSTS/E V06E Timesharing" when you logged in. That rhymes... The last time I asked what the current version was someone told me that it was somewhere in the late 8.x's. Maybe it's finally made it to V9? I must say, the implememtation that I had to deal with was the worst possible. We had a choice of languages: BASIC-PLUS or Macro (no we didn't have BP-2). We had a choice of editors: TECO or TECO. This would have been fine, except we didn't have any compatible terminals (heck, they weren't even compatible with each other -- junk) so we were stuck with a line editor. In BASIC, it is easier to type the whole line over again... Our school (actually a cooperative of 15 schools) used a little PDP-11 to do all gradesheets, scheduling, and accounting -- IN BASIC-PLUS! I still have nightmares about this. > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Yechezkal Shimon (Steven) Gutfreund sgutfreund@bunny.UUCP > GTE Laboratories, Waltham MA sgutfreund@gte.com > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -Michael "I stick with Macs and VAX now" Niehaus -- Michael Niehaus UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)