RSTS/E question and media.

[Andrew Back]

On (11:33 31/12/08), Paul Koning wrote:
> I had to check some history for this... the Wikipedia article on RSTS/E
> is helpful.
> 
> What would you use for a DECnet interface?  V7.0 is DECnet Phase II.
> Phase III was added in V7.1, but that's still iffy with HECnet, and
> you'd need a sync DDCMP interface (for a Q-bus system like that it would
> be a DMV11).  More to the point, it looks like the Micro-PDP11 support
> appeared in V8.0, and I suspect there may be some other small details
> specific to the 11/53 that are later still.

Right, so I'd need to plumb the 11/53 into say an Alpha via a serial
connection. Sync... so I'd need to get a PCI sync card too, for the latter.
 Ugh.

> For Ethernet (DECnet Phase IV) you'd need V9.3 or later.  I don't know
> about availability of late releases like that...

Right...

Thanks for the info!

Andrew

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