[Info-vax] RSTS/E and VMS connection

[anton.la...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 7:02:24 PM UTC-4, bill wrote:

> And there is another note about "The RSTS/E and VAX/VMS Compatbility 
> Manual". I would love to see a copy of that. 
> 

Hi Bill, I found your post accidentally, and I happen to have this book.  It's a rather thick softcover manual, with maybe 1000 thin pages...
It goes by introducing VMS concepts, and new (compared to RSTS/E) things like clusters, and then discussing RSTS/E and VMS beginning from basic stuff like naming devices, general use, to monitor / OS calls / directives, to command language, listing all standard RSTS/E DCL commands and providing their equivalents in VMS.  I have a 1988 revision (not sure if there were any other).  It says it applies to VMS 5.0 and RSTS/E V9.6.  (A similar compatibility manual exists for RSX11 vs VMS, as well.)

It's funny but I always wanted to see the handbook that you have and mentioned -- RSTS/E PDP-11 Operating System 1983-84 -- yet I never had a chance.  There seem to be no digital copies around, of either manual.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EbJ7Vpi8oGWodYOf42ZoBrEdtLcCeFLQ/view?usp=sharing

I took snapshots of the TOC and preface for you:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n_hkUfuOta0AfCqiaCIsmEjbM_zTg3Aq/view?usp=sharing