[Simh] RT-11 source

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sat Oct 22 16:39:58 EDT 2016


On 2016-10-22 21:44, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> Are the comments in the source on the hidden trailing edge archives?

Don't think so. As far as I know, Tim only have access to the same 
distributions that DEC provided to everyone. The actual, commented 
sources, pretty much didn't leave DEC/Mentec/XX2247 yet.

	Johnny


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>> On Oct 22, 2016, at 11:15, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> On Oct 22, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I know that RT-11 is under license from Mentec but is there a way to get the sources for it?  I would like preferably v5.3.  I have an idea for project to teach my self rudimentary OS design and I would like to use RT-11 as an example since PDP-11 assembly is the only assembly I know and I am already comfortable with RT-11.
>>
>> I've always liked RT-11 FB, which is an entirely different design than the older SJ monitor.  Partly it's because its author was my college mentor, and one of the very best programmers I've ever met in over 40 years.
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>> Unfortunately the stripped (no comments) sources omit the literary quotes he liked to sprinkle all over the RT-11 sources.  For example "A source of innocent merriment -- The Mikado" in the idle loop (the lights pattern code).
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>>    paul
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