[Simh] Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs

[Johnny Billquist]

Mentec released RSTS/E V10.1A, which I think was only a few Y2K fixes.

  Johnny 


Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> skrev: (11 december 2017 20:10:42 CET)
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>> On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> In the ancient past the SMD-under-Massbus-emulation third party
>manufacturers (Emulex, etc.) would give binary patch locations to
>enlarge the RSTS/E drivers for full size use. I'm sure these had to
>change for every OS release.
>> 
>> I don't think Mentec had a full release of RSTS/E in their time. 10.1
>was mostly Y2K ready in 1992, and I'm sure through the 1990's that
>Mentec sold it, but 10.1 release predated Mentec's acquisition. (Remind
>me, was the RSTS/E 10.1 Macro assembler date listing fully Y2K
>compliant? I remember that being a sticking point under one of the
>OS's.)
>
>I hadn't noticed, but the answer is no.  Looking at some RT Macro
>listings under RSTS V10, the one from 2000 has the year shown as "100"
>while the one from 2010 has the year shown as "78".
>
>RSTS itself is Y2K compliant, though; this seems like an issue either
>with the RT11 date encoding, or with the RT11 emulator.
>
>	paul
>
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