[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[John Wallace]

On Aug 22, 4:27 pm, Paul Sture <nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:33:22 +0100, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 15:10 -0400, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> >> > 32 bit is limited to a maximum of 4GB. One won't be able to do a lot
> >> > with that with today's software requirements.
>
> >> TKB
>
> > WTF is TKB?
>
> The RSX Task Builder, which was the equivalent of the LINK command on
> RT-11 and VMS.
>
> On both RT-11 and VMS, LINK was usually quite swift.  TKB was like
> watching paint dry in comparison.
>
> --
> Paul Sture

Hidden in a dark corner away from the innocent and naive, RSX/IAS also
had SLOTKB (as in "slow TKB"), which was in use at my employers back
then for some complex builds which the usual TKB couldn't manage due
to running out of some resource or other.

Still, hardware and software's moved on a lot since then. Allegedly.
These days when an app runs out of resources, unlike TKB which told
you why it was exiting, your shiny modern app probably just hangs in
the background whilst leaving pretty "work in progress" videos still
playing, which is exactly what "EasyDuplicateFinder" and Windows
Defrag both did on my Window box yesterday (at which point I found out
the non-toy version of EasyDuplicateFinder costs loadsamoney).

Somewhere on the Internerd a week or two back I wandered across a
LiveCD (for x86) which boots straight into (some OS) running SIMH
running RT11, no geekery required. I haven't really tried it proper
(other things to do) but maybe I'll get something like it running on
my phone when the winter comes (or maybe not)...
http://www.codehosting.net/blog/BlogEngine/post/PDP-11-RT-11-Live-CD-with-Basic-11.aspx