<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 3, 2016, at 8:07 PM, Tony Nicholson <<a href="mailto:tony.nicholson@computer.org" class="">tony.nicholson@computer.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">...</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="">I wasn't aware there was a version of RSTS for the Pro - is this available anywhere?<br class=""></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">It was a "midnight project" as we used to call it. I added Pro support to RSTS 9.3 or thereabouts, and merged it into 9.6 which found its way into the official source code base. As a result, INIT will work on a Pro -- you can boot a floppy with INIT on it on a Pro, assuming of course it has the correct Pro-specific boot loader on it. There's RSTS OS code as well but I don't think that made it into a shipping distribution. I don't actually have recent kits, it would be interesting to check. At one point I created a "delta distribution" -- 3 or 4 floppies which you can use to install Micro-RSTS on a Pro if you have a regular Micro-RSTS kit. That was 9.6; I'd have to dig to find the pieces and I don't seem to have the full sources any longer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Later on I moved much of that code to RSTS 10.1; that's basically operational but I didn't do the packaging again, and those changes didn't make it back into the official codebase. I still don't have a CNA driver, which remains on the "to do" list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The async DDCMP support that's in RSTS 10 (somewhat hidden) came from the Pro work; on the Pro it actually will run the comms port in sync mode if requested, and talk successfully to a DMR11. That too needs some work for V10.1. (I don't know how well known this is, but the comms port on a Pro is a USART, not a UART -- it supports both sync and async operation, including HDLC if you want though I've never used that.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So the short answer is "not really" and the somewhat longer answer is "perhaps it could be". </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>paul</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>