[Simh] Quest from 1979 on RSTS/E V06C-03 in Simh (Brett Bump)

[Brett Bump]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2018, Paul Koning wrote:

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>> On Dec 29, 2018, at 3:29 PM, Robert G. Schaffrath <robert at schaffrath.net> wrote:
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>>> Or you could grab the pre-genned V6C kit from:
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>>> http://www.rsts.org/autoindex.php?dir=distros/RSTS_kits/&file=RSTS_V6C_Kit.zip
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>> I tried booting that, and it does boot, but the startup does not run. No system initialization is performed and I login as job 1 with no CCL's defined. The version at https://skn.noip.me/pdp11/rk2.dsk does boot and has all commands installed.
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>> Looking at both environments there are two things I noticed as different from the V06C-03 I was using in high school back in 1978. On our system we had control-T available that was enabled and disabled along with control-R. ...
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>> I have to wonder if we were running a version of V06C-03 with those additional enhancements. It definitely was not 7.0. I graduated in June 1980 and I was told they upgraded to 7.0 that summer.
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> Control/T support was an optional feature, enabled during SYSGEN, for some time.  I'm fairly sure it was never an undocumented feature, but it wasn't standard originally.
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> 	paul

I also am not sure if the "chasing snakes" code LIGHTS.OBJ was included in
the V6 distributions or not (I haven't checked).  I know we always genned
that in our V8 machines and it was pulled from the V9 distributions.

Brett