> On Nov 23, 2015, at 2:37 PM, Johnny Billquist <b...@update.uu.se> wrote: > > ... >>>> While, MSCP is interesting in that it's somewhat drive independent, it's >>>> complex and it only really works with newer OS's. >>> >>> Well, "newer" in this case is sortof anything beyond the mid 80s. :-) >> >> RSTS added MSCP support in V8, so if you want to run V7 you'll want to have >> a traditional disk emulation. > > Yeah. And unless I remember wrong, V8 came in 1986?
No, 1983. I remembered wrong, though; UDA50 support arrived in RSTS 7.2, in 1982. A nice reference for RSTS history is the wonderfully fictional "RSTS 80th anniversary" document. A copy of it lives here: http://www.silverware.co.uk/rsts_80th_birthday.htm . I don't remember who wrote that; it came out as part of the 20th anniversary celebration, in 1990. In other words, the entries for 1990 and before are basically accurate; everything after that is a product of some very nice imagination. paul
