[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sat Sep 2 17:14:50 EDT 2023


On 2023-09-02 02:56, Bob Gezelter wrote:
> On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 5:45:41 PM UTC-4, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> And if you want more deep diving into RSX, just let me know. I'll
>> happily guide you through it. But it will be lots of MACRO-11. ;-)
>>
>> Johnny
> Johnny,
> 
> I still have my RSX-11M listings from Version 3.2. I was one of the systems programmers on our PDP-11/34, did quite a bit of driver architecting and writing. Also the first person outside RSX Engineering to write a queue manager symbiont (uncovered a nasty synchronization design flaw).
> 
> MACRO-11 was my fourth assembler language.

Cool. But just as a little warning, a lot was changed and improved in 
11M+ compared to 11M. And a lot was changed when V4 came around. V3 is 
outright ancient. :-D

But really nice to hear you have a solid ground.

   Johnny




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