[Info-vax] VMS 5.0

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-11-08 20.39, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2011-11-08 15.45, John Reagan wrote:
>> "Hans Vlems"<hvlems at freenet.de> wrote in message
>> news:3f2dfc7b-174a-4a0e-8b52-ecd1b7dddd4d at d17g2000yql.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>> Before the RA60 arrived in 1985/1986 the choice was limited to RK07,
>>> possibly a pack that fitted an RM03/05 or
>>> an RP drive?
>>
>> I don't remember an RK07 kit, but I seem to remember an RL02 kit
>> (maybe that
>> was something we did only at SpitBrook but never shipped?)
>
> RL02 is the console media of the VAX 86x0 machines. Could you be
> remembering that? It holds both the local RT-11 OS, all the diagnostics,
> as well as the standalone backup and VMB.

Correction. The standalone image was on a separate RL02 distributed with 
VMS, and is not located on the same RL02 as the rest of the FE system.

	Johnny