[Simh] RSTS/E 9.5

[Bill Heaton]

Hi Brett,

Received a RSTS 9.6 Update tape today.  I've inited, sysgened, and  
boot a RP04 successfully.
Quick and Dirty Sysgen so will need to go back and create a more  
reasonable version.

I'm planning on creating a ISO image that people can download and burn  
to a CD.  Currently
pulling down manual set to fill out the package.

Will let you know how things go...

Regards, Bill

On Mar 9, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Brett Bump wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Bill Heaton wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been a fan of Simh for several years.  After many years I've
>> finally gotten
>> my hands on a RSTS 9.5 distribution (still looking for the 9.6  
>> update)
>> and I
>> was just able to sysgen and boot the system on simh.
>
> Yes, everything from V4A-12 to V10.1 all seem to run quite well on  
> simh.
> I've been wanting to update the web site to get V9.6 available but  
> work
> and sickness just seem to get in the way too much.
>
>> I'm willing to spend some time putting together a howto and a
>> distribution kit
>> but thought I'd check with you to see if I'd be stepping on anybody's
>> toes.
>>
>> Regards, Bill Heaton
>
> A howto and distribution kit would be great and we would be willing to
> host your work if you would like.  I doubt that you would be  
> stepping on
> anyones toes.  Tim put years of work into handholding Mentec to get  
> them
> to go as far as they did, only to have most of it all disolve in front
> of him.  Kirk and I put the web site on hold for years hoping  
> everything
> would work out better than it did, but my last contact at Mentec quit
> emailing years ago.
>
> We have still been looking for old versions from V5A to V6C.  The  
> V6C we
> have up includes all of the distribution, but the INIT.SYS is corrupt.
>
> I would also welcome anyone who would like to post their RSTS hobby  
> work
> online for others to learn from, and to invite you to contribute any
> knowledge you may remember to the Wikipedia RSTS/E article that Paul
> Koning and I have been trying to expand.  Most likely I will replicate
> the Wikipedia information locally so that it can be expanded beyond  
> what
> Wikipedia is willing to tolerate.
>
> Brett
>