guy (02/14/83)
Note that the "official" DEC operating system for the PC350 is P/OS, better known as "RSX-11M with a menu-oriented shell". At one point, a long time ago, I was working on a machine which was a single-user machine running RT-11 and which was going to become a multi-user machine. I looked both at RSX-11M and UNIX (Sixth Edition!), and concluded that UNIX was FAR friendlier to the novice user. As such, UNIX with a menu-oriented shell is probably as good as RSX-11M with a menu-oriented shell for the novice user. The claim that UNIX is ONLY good for programmers is a base canard (as opposed to an acid canard). Guy Harris RLG Corporation (decvax!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy)
mercury@ut-ngp.UUCP (07/15/86)
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I would be *most* appreciative if anyone `out there' was able to point
me in the direction of *any* free software (read: public domain,
shareware, *cheap*, etc.) for the DEC Professional 350. I found this
archiaic boat anchor sitting in the computer room at work; apparently
no one else wanted to touch it, so I adopted it and am using it as a
vt100 emulator. To write this message, in fact.
I'd just *love* to be able to do more.
In particular, I'd like to get my hands on a copy of Kermit, and,
should it exist, a copy of Xinu.
Thanks!
Larry Baker
Larry Baker Net/UUCP: mercury@ut-ngp.{ARPA, UUCP, UTEXAS.EDU}
UT Austin ihnp4!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!mercury
Computer Science Local: baker@walt.UTEXAS.EDU
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Larry Baker Net/UUCP: mercury@ut-ngp.{ARPA, UUCP, UTEXAS.EDU}
UT Austin ihnp4!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!mercury
Computer Science Local: baker@walt.UTEXAS.EDUspf@bonnie.UUCP (07/16/86)
> shareware, *cheap*, etc.) for the DEC Professional 350. I found this > archiaic boat anchor sitting in the computer room at work; apparently > no one else wanted to touch it, so I adopted it and am using it as a > vt100 emulator. To write this message, in fact. Being a PRO 350 owner (and with my own money, yet, though I got a 70% discount through a university), I cringe at such references as "vintage", "archiaic", and "boat anchor". True, the PRO 350 is a PDP-11/23, and PDP-11 is a 1970 architecture, but humor me. While the 350 is about performance-equivalent to the IBM PC, it can be upgraded to an 11/73 (PRO 380), which is about 3 times faster. Yeah, I know, that isn't a cheap prospect (probably around $2K). You can also get bigger hard disks (mine has 10M, but I can get a 20M for $350, and I think a 33M is available). It also runs a nice implementation of UNIX System V (in the body of VENIX, which has some useful real-time extensions). So don't play taps. The machine is decent; the problem is just that DEC gets bored with any of its products over 2 years old (exception: VAX-11/780). The PDP is STILL a nice architecture, for 16-bits, and it's dynamite for real-time stuff, which is my use of it. Steve Frysinger bonnie!spf P.S. Yes, I DO still have a Fisher vacuum-tube stereo amp, and a 1968 Triumph GT-6. Wanna make somethin' of it? *** No, I don't work for DEC. If I did, I'd support my product line.