[Info-vax] RSTS/E, was: Re: VMS x86 performance ?

[Henry Crun]

On 03/11/2020 20:39, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-11-03, Henry Crun <mike at rechtman.com> wrote:
>>
>> Things I miss on VMS that I remember from RSTS/E
>>
>> 1. The SYSTAT cusp, which showed details of running jobs
>> (Took a while, but I have a VMS equivalent. Linux has top and htop)
>> 2. The UTILTY program which had an option to force input to another process
>> (Useful for saving stuck users, or changing batch jobs mid-stream)
> 
> Good luck getting that past an auditor these days. :-)
> 
>> 3.An undocumented, unsupported SYS call (IIRC SYS(chr(10...) ) which allowed
>> a suitably privileged System Manager to see anaother process' or user's input buffers.
>> (Not used often, but an occasional lifesaver!)
>>
> 
> Likewise. :-)
> 
>> OTOH what I don't miss:
>> ACCT.SYS -- all the passwords readable, and using the KED editor (pre-EDT) left it readable on disk.
>> Having to jump through hoops to use the equivalent of a batch queue
> 
> Is this RSTS/E V8 and earlier or RSTS/E V9 and above ?
> 
> I'm not familiar with the OPSER stuff that was in V8 and earlier as it
> was before my time, but I remember PBS in V9 and above as being very
> VMS-like in how you interacted with it.
> 
> Simon.
> 

I was introduced to RSTS watching a SYSGEN (which ran under RT11, IIRC)
circa V5. Lots of PIP, no queues, no DCL, line editor on a LA120 at 1200 baud if you were lucky,
300 on a LA34 if you were unlucky. Later there was DECnet on synchronous RS232 lines.
When I started my main job was maintaining (mostly soldering) RS232 terminal connections...
Took a while till I was allowed to touch software

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