PDP 11/73 on the Internet

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Dave McGuire wrote:
>>>> It's damnably slow, but at least it works.
>>>   Yep.  The scary thing is...an OS like RSX-11 or RSTS/E is quite 
>>> zippy on a machine like that.
>>
>> Hmmm.  Porting (or writing a work-alike of) RSX-11 for a newer 
>> architecture (suck as PC -- for the low cost) comes to mind.
> 
>   That would be extremely yummy.

I wonder how hard it would be?  I can't say that I'm very familiar with 
the capabilities of RSX, but, considering the size of the code we're 
talking about, could it be possible that it wouldn't involve as much 
work as writing a more modern, featureful, cluttered, bloaty operating 
system?

>   Note that you typed "suck as PC" above...Freudian slip? ;)

Probably.  8-)

Peace...  Sridhar