At 12:58 PM 1/2/01 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DS> At 12:43 PM 1/2/01 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>
> >> which OS? rt-11 was my favorite!
>
> DS> RSTS/E, of course. If for no other reason than I've never used
> DS> RT-11 or RSX. (Well, unless you count VMS in as an RSX variant...)
> DS> A rather nice OS, all things considered.
>
>infidel! rt-11 was the true ancestor of cp/m and the evil winblows.
And this would be a *good* thing how, exactly? :)
>it
>should have a perl port for historical reasons alone.
>
>and it had disk and ram OVERLAYS support up the wazoo. 22 bits pf
>physical ram could be mapped into the 64k address space. kinda like
>reverse virtual memory.
As did RSTS. With compiled basic programs, no less. :-P (Nothing quite like
wedging a 500K executable into 64k of I-space. Now *that* was always fun...)
This, alas, is wildly off-topic, so we should probably stop.
Dan
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