11/93 rebuild

Glen Slick glen.slick at gmail.com
Mon May 27 12:55:26 CDT 2019


On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:37 AM Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > RSTS V10.0-L RSTS   (DU0) INIT V10.0-0L
> >
> >
> > Today's date? 19.5.27
> >
> > Current time? 9:50
> >
> > ...
> > ;9.05.27 09:50
>
> Hm, Y2K bug in that version?
>

It was installed from the RSTS/E 10.0 tape image that recently
(2019-05-09) appeared on Bitsavers:

http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/rsts/RSTS_V10.ZIP

I have installed from a RSTS/E 10.1 tape image in the past and I seem
to remember it being more Y2K friendly. I used the Bitsavers 10.0 tape
image as an example here because the 10.1 tape image source that I
previously used was not public at the time to provide a link.

> > Proceed with system startup? <YES>
> >
> > Beginning RSTS/E system startup...
> > 19.05.27  09:50      Installing monitor overlays
> > 19.05.27  09:50      Mounting disks
> > 19.05.27  09:50      Assigning logical names
> > 19.05.27  09:50      Starting error logging
> > 19.05.27  09:50      Setting system characteristics
> > 27-May-19 09:50 AM   Installing run-time systems and libraries
> > 27-May-19 09:50 AM   Starting Operator/Message Services
> > ?Invalid time
> > ?Undefined symbol
> > ?Undefined symbol
>
> This says there's some stuff in your start.com that RSTS is not happy with, but it's not clear what that might be.  It doesn't seem to cause any real problems.
>

Yeah, those messages bug me slightly and I should try to figure out
what they mean. I don't remember seeing those when I used a 10.1
install. I just wanted to get this example out there for Rod now, and
worry about clean up issues later.

Thanks.


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