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

Bill Gunshannon bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu
Fri Mar 6 08:49:37 EST 2015


In article <4f386b01-19f1-4c59-8a96-743290a4d2bf at googlegroups.com>,
	Jonathan <jtcegh at gmail.com> writes:
>> > 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. :)

What was it written in?  MACRO-11?

bill

> 
> 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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