RT11 sysgen and disk partitions

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> XM is the eXtended Monitor, which is like FB but in addition allows the
> use of more than 56kB memory (by paging).  Device drivers for XM have a
> three-letter filename, with the third letter always being 'X'.

So I imagine any device drive with the X at the end is the better one to
use with the XM monitor?  Or is it mandatory to use X device drivers in
the XM monitor?

> BL is the BaseLine monitor, which is what is on the distribution media.
>  It's like SJ, but includes all the devices you're likely to want to
> boot from (so you can do a SYSGEN and transfer your customised monitor
> to your preferred boot medium) and excludes all the frilly bits you
> might want but aren't needed for a SYSGEN.

So this brings up another question: I've noticed that I don't explicitly
need to LOAD device drivers for the devices I want to use when I boot
RT-11.  In particular, I don't need to LOAD DD when I want to use the TU58
simulator.  Are they found and loaded automatically when the OS boots,
or...?

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