Re: DEC RSX-11D and its COBOL compiler?

2018-05-29 Thread John Wallace via cctalk
[apologies for lack of context, been away from cctalk a long time and insufficient recall of how this cctalk thing works... yet somehow still remember IAS on an 11/70 from the 1980s] Pick an RSX layered product and lots of fundamental stuff would probably be compatible between 11M, 11D, and IA

Re: Servicing DEC-T11 based products with a Fluke pod?

2016-04-15 Thread John Wallace
1/t11/ Nothing about Fluke pods, but maybe something more than you have at the moment? Best of luck John Wallace

Re: QNX - was Re: Minix 3 vs portability

2016-02-24 Thread John Wallace
lways sounded interesting. Maybe like VAXELN, a well kept secret. have a lot of fun John Wallace ps QNX doesn't have HELP ADVANCED WOMBAT or a newsletter called The Wombat Examiner.

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

2016-01-28 Thread John Wallace
s, after all, still pretty close even if VAXELN is closer). And the WNT name? Who knows. The magic words PRISM and MICA perhaps come into this discussion somewhere too, but I know nothing about them. Have a lot of fun. John Wallace (not to be confused with John Willis!) [Repurposed with mi

Re: Chromatics on ebay (Al Kossow)

2015-07-25 Thread John Wallace
arate ribbons and multiple passes over each line of text (if necessary) and spoke HPGL iirc as well as private text-mode escape sequences. The terminal was VT compatible and Tektronix 401x compatible at rather higher resolution. Nice stuff, but at maybe £3000 each they probably didn't sell many. By that stage the Chromatics had vanished into a dark dusty corner. regards John Wallace regards John Wallace

Re: out-of-mainstream minis

2015-07-04 Thread John Wallace
rious other vendors; the one I had was reportedly a prototype prior to being rebadged by Gould. Maybe Unisys were doing the same. It may have been Gould's (not CT's) software. Have a lot of fun john wallace Re: out-of-m

Re: UNIBUS extension card/cable sets

2015-06-26 Thread John Wallace
l be more manageable - less risk of Bad Things happening when they superpose. Or something along those lines. Anyway, hopefully the "different cable lengths so the reflection timings are different" will ring a few bells even if it's not actually right. Have a lot of fun John Wallace

RE: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

2015-06-07 Thread John Wallace
[massive snippages for brevity] Apologies if this is a daft question badly presented: has anybody mentioned, or better still looked at, DSRPLUS for this picture yet? I did have a quick look but may have missed it. It is, as the name suggests, intended as a bigger better version of DEC/DIGITAL