[Simh] RT-11 source

[Paul Koning]

> On Oct 23, 2016, at 4:11 PM, Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:07:33 -0400
> Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> ...
> 
>> RT-11 is very clean.  I've worked with V2A (the FB version when
>> possible, SJ when I didn't have enough memory).  They are very simple
>> and compact; the UI is the old TOPS-10 style, not the newer bloated
>> "DCL" interface.  So a V2 era edition would be a good way to go.
> 
> Yes, it's very nice. Someone once gave me electronic copies of some
> sources (circa 1975) and I read them with glee. Lovely comments, too:
> the system call dispatcher had the comment "What's it going to be then,
> eh?" from the Clockwork Orange. I think those comments were only in the
> FB monitor.

Yes.  They were the work of the FB designer, Anton Chernoff, later my mentor in college.  I lifted the idea later on; some of the DECnet/E source code has neat quotes in it.  Unfortunately, those aren't so visible because DECnet/E sources were never distributed... :-(

	paul