Re: RSTS emulation in a browser (now "FILMGR")

2019-12-17 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 09:23 PM 12/15/2019, John Foust via cctalk wrote: >At 11:11 PM 12/13/2019, John Foust via cctalk wrote: >>Another RSTS question. One of my rescued tapes has only several >>files with the extension ".FLB" Compared to other files of the >>sets, these are relatively large... up to a meg or so. A

Re: RSTS emulation in a browser (now "FILMGR")

2019-12-15 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 11:11 PM 12/13/2019, John Foust via cctalk wrote: >Another RSTS question. One of my rescued tapes has only several >files with the extension ".FLB" Compared to other files of the >sets, these are relatively large... up to a meg or so. I'd found some RAD-50 filenames in the headers at constant

Re: RSTS emulation in a browser (now "FILMGR")

2019-12-13 Thread John Foust via cctalk
Another RSTS question. One of my rescued tapes has only several files with the extension ".FLB" Compared to other files of the sets, these are relatively large... up to a meg or so. In a text file on another related tape, a manager wrote "Learn how to use FILMGR, which is invoked by DO FILMGR

Re: RSTS emulation in a browser

2019-12-10 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 02:04 PM 12/10/2019, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote: >Downloaded files for previous PDP-11 emulator but couldn't get it to run. >Link to German site at bottom of your post works fine and Unix runs about same >speed that it ran on my 11/34 in 1983. Scary that coding a PDP-11 emulator in >an incred

Re: RSTS emulation in a browser

2019-12-10 Thread Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk
Downloaded files for previous PDP-11 emulator but couldn't get it to run. Link to German site at bottom of your post works fine and Unix runs about same speed that it ran on my 11/34 in 1983. Scary that coding a PDP-11 emulator in an incredibly inefficient scripting language such as Javascrip

Re: RSTS emulation in a browser

2019-12-10 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 10:51 PM 12/9/2019, Jay Jaeger wrote: >No, not necessarily. A web server provides a content header based on >its own internal configuration. For local files, it is determined >locally, and so might be different. > >Also it is possible that there are some file references in there that >are not

Re: RSTS emulation in a browser

2019-12-09 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 12/7/2019 3:12 PM, John Foust via cctech wrote: > At 09:07 PM 12/6/2019, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: >> When I try and contact the site, it times out / can't connect, though I >> did manage to get an index listing by leaving off the pdp11.html. > > I also saw the timeĀ­outs but a retry usually

Re: RSTS emulation in a browser

2019-12-07 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 09:07 PM 12/6/2019, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: >When I try and contact the site, it times out / can't connect, though I >did manage to get an index listing by leaving off the pdp11.html. I also saw the timeĀ­outs but a retry usually fixed it. >Not quite sure what you mean by trying to run it

Re: RSTS emulation in a browser

2019-12-07 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
To answer your question, yes, yuo can down a compacted file or another and it will be able to run locally (done that but not tried yet) It does time out (but if you let it sit, suddenly it pops up, it seems to be at some sort of dynamic IP address that takes a bit to pop up. hope this hellps. bb O

Re: RSTS emulation in a browser

2019-12-06 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 12/5/2019 10:57 AM, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > > Back in 2000, Jay Jaeger generously helped me read some old backup tapes > from a RSTS V7.0-07 system. > > I'm not sure why I hadn't tried before, but I recently thought I could > try to run those circa-1982 BASIC-PLUS and FORTRAN programs