[Info-vax] What are the earliest DEC operating systems you worked with ?

[Dave Froble]

On 3/11/2021 12:30 PM, Jerry Eckert wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 12:24:24 PM UTC-6, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> What are the earliest DEC operating systems you worked with ?
>
> RSTS-11 (N.B. not /E) V4A on a PDP-11/20 in 1972. The system was upgraded to a PDP-11/50 running RSTS/E V5A within a year.
>
> My first VMS system was a VAX-11/780 running V1
>

That's a year before I started with RSTS/E V04b.

I'm wondering how today's programmers would do with the variable names 
Basic+ allowed back then?  A single letter, or, a single letter followed 
by a single decimal.  "%" suffix to denote an integer, "$" suffix to 
denote a string.

Even more fun was writing and toggling in a bootstrap loader for the 
PDP6, but that wasn't work, that was school.

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