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Subject: Re: Anyone out there?
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Date: 23 Mar 89 02:21:22 GMT
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Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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RSTS/E:  Resource Sharing Time Sharing System/Extended

In my senior year I ran my high school's PDP-11/84 under RSTS/E V7.1-11.
It was great for our little learning environment, good old BASIC-PLUS.

The 11/84 was given new RC-25s to replace its old RKik-06s and a new
version of RSTS, V9.3-20.  If you were interested in reading the monitor
tables, forget it now, its all in "unmapped memory".  Version 9 brought
about many changes, the biggest being everything depending on DCL...
YUCK!  Last I heard was that RSTS is up to at least 9.5 and I've heard
rumors of version 10.  Did I hear that V8 was the last major release of
RSTS?

News from the high school says that the old PDP is still working away
under RSTS...  allowing students to rip the operating system apart to
figure out how it works.  Many good memories of getting RSTS to do what it
wasn't suppose to.

Now I'm working on Suns under UNIX...  I have to admit the workstations are
much more comfortable, but UNIX is a little less friendly.

John F. DeStefano
CPS Student @ Michigan State University
Mail:  destefan@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu

"The Jawas wanted to sell him 3CPU, but 3CPU didn't know how to talk to
an 11/40 with RSTS/E, so Luke would still need some sort of interface
for 3CPU to connect to."  -- "DEC WARS!"