spf@moss.ATT.COM (06/30/87)
Okay campers, my PRO-350 is on the block for $1200. It's a PDP-11/23 running the RSX-11M+ (multitasking realtime) OS found on most large PDPs (and compatible with RT-11). It's got 512K RAM (more available), two 512K 5.25" floppies (same as microVax's), and a 10M winchester (bigger ones available). It has a high-res graphics monitor, which (with its detached keyboard) is styled like the VT2xx series of terminals (kinda purdy!). Running RSX (which DEC calls P/OS Toolkit), it's a great personal lab machine. PDP-11 assembly language and interrupt control features are legendary. Mine has the MACRO-11 assembler, DEC's Pascal and FORTRAN-77 compilers, Whitesmith's C compiler, and a PD lisp to boot. It has both high-level (CORE) and low-level graphics libraries. It also has a couple spreadsheet packages and a business management package. VENIX (UNIX System V) is available for it from VentureCom. I've used it elsewhere and it seems pretty good; it's been tweaked to support realtime applications (preemptive processes, 1/60 second sleeps, etc), so the 350 would be a nice UNIX box. It's been under maintenance contract since I got it (about three years ago), and I've got version 3.0 of the OS in boxes (2.0 is running now). I've got too many computers in the homestead, so this one has to go. Give me a call or drop me a line! $1200 for a PDP-11 with the works? Wow! Steve Frysinger 201/386-7010 (weekdays) y suy suy