[Simh] Lost PDP-11 OSes?

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu May 21 14:53:53 EDT 2020



> On May 20, 2020, at 11:38 PM, Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to collect all the OSes that I can for the PDP-11 on Simh and I have noticed that there are a few missing.  

Along those lines: is there MUMPS-11 anywhere?  That's nicely obscure.  Another obscure one is CAPS-11, though that's probably far less interesting.

MUMPS was a database system, apparently a very good one.  It was used as the core for ASSIST-11, a telephone directory assistance database.  In other words, the database that 411 operators would consult to answer your request for a phone number in a second or two.  Database lookup in a million-record or so database, in around a second, on a PDP-11 in 1978.  Nice.

	paul




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