[Simh] RT-11 Storage Strategy

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Wed Feb 17 15:02:26 EST 2016


> On Feb 17, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Larry Baker <baker at usgs.gov> wrote:
> 
> If you really want the RT-11 experience, try running it off RX01 floppies.  My first experience with DEC PDP-11's was a PDP-11/34 (not 34A; no FPU) running RT-11 off floppies.  Ka-klunk, ka-klunk!

Yes, but that's still quite a lot faster than running it on DECtape.

Still, the amazing part is that RT on DECtape actually works.  It's the only DEC OS I know of for which that is true.

	paul




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