[Simh] Lost PDP-11 OSes?

Gregg Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
Thu May 21 18:19:50 EDT 2020


Hello!
Take a look at the list of PDP-11 OS examples on the Wikipedia site.
Of those I think I recognize most of them. This includes the ones
discussed here. For myself I'd like to track down the last known
working release of the R named operating systems for the PDP-11. Up to
the user to pick one.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 6:14 PM Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 May 2020 16:41:40 -0400
> John Forecast <john at forecast.name> wrote:
>
> > > On May 21, 2020, at 2:53 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> 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
> >
> > I have a distribution tape image of Mumps-11 v3.3 and a pre-built
> > RL02 image which I got from the Computer Conservation  Society in the
> > UK. The images are no longer available on their website. I have no
> > place to make them available but if someone wants to host them I can
> > make them available (total is ~8MB).
>
> Hi, John!
>
> I'd be happy to host them; I'm in the CCS as it happens.
>
> Now, about a POPS image...! :)
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