[Simh] RT-11 BASIC & FORTRAN

Kevin Handy kth at srv.net
Wed Jan 5 15:03:19 EST 2005


Jon Laughton wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a newcomer to SIMH and have been enjoying myself trying the 
> various machines and operating systems available. It seems like a 
> great piece of software, but I would welcome some help in one 
> particular area. One of my interests in SIMH is to get some old RT-11 
> BASIC and FORTRAN programs of my own running again. I obtained both 
> the v4 and v5.3 RT-11 OS packages and have them running on the PDP-11 
> simulator. Unfortunately,  BASIC and FORTRAN, while mentioned in the 
> HELP command, don't seem to be included. Am I doing something wrong, 
> or have they been left out from the supposedly "complete" OS packages?

BASIC and FORTRAN were layored products, and not shipped with
the OS itself. They would be bought seperately, and would be shipped
on their own tape/disk/etc.

I don't know if anyone is making images of these layored products
available.




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