[Simh] 101 Basic Games for RSTS/E (was Re: PDP11 on Simh for public access)

[Clem Cole]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 7:23 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

>  I thought Dave Ahl didn't come from that environment.


I'm pretty sure Ahl was in Education System's group, which I thought at one
point was in MRO (Marlboro).    Small-systems was in the Mill.  MRO was
36-bit land.   So he would have had access to the 10s, but I note you're
right there had been many 8s in the Education stream.

That said, few HSs could even afford them.  Folks in HS's  (like my father
who was teaching Math in a HS outside of Philadelphia during that time
period) were most likely running on remote timesharing systems via dial-up
lines - with GE(Honywell)/Mark-IV being the giant in that business (my own
entry in the computers with him in '67 was on the Mark-II and Mark-III).
DEC's customers that were trying to get into that business were mostly
supported by PDP-10s, not small systems.

RSTS Basic is a late entry, the language support for it, originally came
from the compiler group which again was originally PDP-10 based (also
remember the PDP-11 BLISS compiler needed a 10 to run it).

I can not look in my own archives from the time, my only PDP-10
documentation I have left from the early 70s, is the white monitor 'phone
book.'  I do have later (circa '78) PDP-10/20 docs but that would have be
after the book described was published.

Clem


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