C compilers for RSTS/E?

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Fri Oct 22 17:02:03 CDT 2004


>>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Dicks <dickset at amanda.spole.gov> writes:

 Ethan> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:40:55PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
 >> Interesting -- DOS format magtape.  6.3 filenames...

 Ethan> That has more to do with the use of RADIX-50 to store
 Ethan> filenames on PDP-11 disks than anything that came out of
 Ethan> Redmond (RAD-50 stores 3 uppercase chars in 16 bits, so it
 Ethan> takes three words to store names as 6.3)

Sure.  What I was getting at is that the RSX native file naming was
9.3, not 6.3.  6.3 is TOPS10, DOS-11, RT11, RSTS; but RSX (all
flavors), IAS, and early VMS were all 9.3.

	  paul




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