Old computers did it better!

[toml_12953]

(10-28-2018 11:51 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  

(10-28-2018 07:04 PM)toml_12953 Wrote:  I have one (as well as Oscar's PiDP-8) and can vouch for the quality of his kits. If you buy one you won't regret it (unless you're married to a practical woman!)

I'm currently running BASIC on four serial terminals and still have a console free to do system changes. It's an amazing little kit!

Are RSX-11/M, RT-11, and RSTS/E all available?

Yes, also various versions of Unix. Just about all operating systems that ran on the original PDP-11/70 are available for the PiDP-11. It uses a Raspberry Pi (hence the name) with the SIMH emulator. You can try out SIMH with Linux or Windows before you buy a PiDP-11 and then copy the disk image you create over to the PiDP-11 once you get it and it will run there the same as on your PC. The PiDP-11 comes with DOS-11, Unix v6, Unix v7, Unix v5, RT11 v4.0, RSTS v06C-03, XDXP, RT-11 3B, RT-11 v5.4F, RSTS 4B-17, BSD 2.9, RSX 11M v3.2, RSTS/E v7.0, XXDP, ULTRIX-11 v3.1, BSD 2.11, RSTS/E 9.6, and RSX 11M v4.6. Of course these may not be configured the way you want them but you can install from any install kits DEC made available online. In my case, I wanted RSTS/E 10.1 so I found an install tape image and installed it on a new disk pack image. I also installed BASIC PLUS 2 v9.7 from an install tape. Now my system runs just the way I want it to. It does run much faster on a PC but even on the PiDP-11 it's much faster than on a real PDP-11/70.