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BenBurch
3rd February 2008, 01:47 PM
About a network driver Vicky White and I wrote 25 years ago!

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rsx/decus/rsx82b/300214/pn166.mem
Wowbagger
3rd February 2008, 02:03 PM
Whoa! :jaw-dropp A FORTRAN-callable RSX communications driver!!! No way! That's just what I was looking for!

Thanks!!! :)
Gord_in_Toronto
3rd February 2008, 05:42 PM
Whoa! :jaw-dropp A FORTRAN-callable RSX communications driver!!! No way! That's just what I was looking for!

Thanks!!! :)

Is it Ok if I port it to FORTRAN V to run on a UNIVAC 1108? I have a cross-compiler running under CP/M.

Ah. Those were the days. Even with an operating system, you could figure out what the machine was doing. :sniff:
BenBurch
3rd February 2008, 06:21 PM
I have a PDP-8 Emulator here and OS/8. Sadly, the only PDP-11 Emulator I know of that works well is a commercial product, and RSX is still being sold (to whom I wonder?) so its not fallen into the "Abandonware" category yet.
joobie
4th February 2008, 11:06 AM
i used to use a pdp-11.

to heat the room.
fuelair
4th February 2008, 11:11 AM
i used to use a pdp-11.

to heat the room.

:D:D:D
Gord_in_Toronto
4th February 2008, 05:57 PM
I have a PDP-8 Emulator here and OS/8. Sadly, the only PDP-11 Emulator I know of that works well is a commercial product, and RSX is still being sold (to whom I wonder?) so its not fallen into the "Abandonware" category yet.

When the /360 was introduced, someone in a presentation my brother attended asked the IBM presenter whether his 650 (a "first generation" drum computer) program he was running on a simulator on his 1401 (a "second generation" computer) would run in 1401 emulation mode on the /360.

I have visions that some place there is an IBM z9 still running this program somehow -- because they lost the documentation. But I really fear that it did not make it past 1999. :(
fuelair
4th February 2008, 06:04 PM
This machine, it played one, it pushed Start and Program Run
It's an IBM 360-85, this computer came alive!

This machine, it played two, overloaded data to the CPU.
It's an IBM 360-85, this computer came alive!
BenBurch
4th February 2008, 09:19 PM
Actually, some emulated 1401 programs still soldier on! They were actually PATCHED to deal with Y2K.
Father Dagon
5th February 2008, 10:03 AM
About a network driver Vicky White and I wrote 25 years ago!

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rsx/decus/rsx82b/300214/pn166.memhttp://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/thum_1759247a896d01ce2e.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=10598)
Groovy!
ingoa
6th February 2008, 08:45 AM
Vicky is still in the business.

I saw her quite often at CERN a few years ago. We were together in the Grid business and mass storage stuff....
Gord_in_Toronto
6th February 2008, 09:51 AM
Actually, some emulated 1401 programs still soldier on! They were actually PATCHED to deal with Y2K.

Gee. Thanks. I really, really did not want to know this! :(