[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

Jonathan jtcegh at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 15:49:57 EST 2015


> > Damn... Bill I started a design layout for 32 bit PDP11's back in the 90's.
> > You want me to do 64 bit now... 8-).
> > 
> > The main issue was really getting in different memory management with 
> > larger pages...  I'd use 4096 now to match the new disks.
> > 
> > Who's doing the Basic Plus...

We'll do it, we did the first one. :)

Jonathan

EGH

> > 
>  
> People always laugh, but I actually expect that given the full sources for
> everything RSTS/E and the necessary permissions to do it, I could probably
> single-handedly have a port running on some other architecture in less
> than a year.  And being as I am about to be retired (this time for real!!)
> in just a couple of months, it's not like I wouldn't have the time to do
> it.  Hmmm...  RSTS/E-6809.  Maybe RSTS/E-Z80 and, of course, RSTS/E-agnostic.
> 
> bill



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