Welcome, RSX-11 User, to V2.0 of the RSX-11 Freeware CD!

This collection of RSX-11 freeware has been assembled over most of
a decade from various sources - hundreds of 9-track tapes, disk packs,
8" floppies, and RX50's.  The contents of the sources date back as far
as the early 1970's.  Here it is all collected and indexed in one
place.

The bulk of the freeware is in the form of RSX Sigtapes that 
were supplied to me as BRU TPC
(tape container) files from Tom Wyantt and Don Arrowsmith.  These
tape container files were written to physical tapes and restored to
virtual disks.  The one exception is RSX91B, which I copied to an ODS-1
volume from the VMS91B DECUS collection.

The early Sigtapes were, of course, not originally created as BRU savesets.
These were converted to BRU format by Don Arrowsmith.

The file SIGTAPES.SUM serves as a useful index to the RSX Sigtapes.
It also indices some other DECUS SIG volumes not included here.

The following RSX-11 Sigtapes are on this CD:

RSX77B  Fall   1977 San Diego
RSX78A  Spring 1978 Chicago
RSX78B  Fall   1978 San Francisco
RSX79A  Spring 1979 New Orleans
RSX79B  Fall   1979 San Diego
RSX80A  Spring 1980 Chicago
RSX80B  Fall   1980 San Francisco
RSX81A  Spring 1981 Miami
RSX81B  Fall   1981 Los Angeles
RSX82A  Spring 1982 Atlanta
RSX82B  Fall   1982 Anaheim
RSX83A  Spring 1983 St. Louis
RSX83B  Fall   1983 Las Vegas
RSX83B2 Fall   1983 Las Vegas, second volume
RSX84A  Spring 1984 Cincinatti
RSX84A2 Spring 1984 Cincinatti, second volume
RSX84B  Fall   1984 Anaheim
RSX85A  Spring 1985 New Orleans
RSX85B  Fall   1985 Aneheim
RSX86A  Spring 1986 Dallas
RSX86B  Fall   1986 San Francisco
RSX87A  Spring 1987 Nashville
RSX87B  Fall   1987 Anaheim
RSX88A  Spring 1988 Cincinatti
RSX88B  Fall   1988 Anaheim
RSX89A  Spring 1989 Atlanta
RSX89B  Fall   1990 Anaheim
RSX89EUR Europe 1989 Den Haag
RSX90A  Spring 1990 New Orleans
RSX90B  Fall   1990 Anaheim
RSX91B  Fall   1991

In addition to the Sigtapes, there are several more recent tools and
updates provided here.  In particular:

dungeon  The latest version of the classic adventure game
emacs	 A Micro-EMACS implementation for RSX-11
k11	 Kermit-11, with binary, as patched by Johnny Billquist
mce428   MCE, the CLI command line editor, V4.2, from J.H. Hamakers

And finally, several 11- numbered DECUS packages:

110593   Control C Trap Handler for FORTRAN  Version: V1.05,September 1982
110594   CPU Usage Monitor Display Facility for RSX-11M  Version:X02.05
11S047   AnalytiCalc (PortaCalc): A 3D Spreadsheet/Database System V22.3B
11S054   BASIC Business Package  Version: May 1983

Contact me if you have any additional PDP-11 freeware you would like
to contribute, or if you would like copies of any PDP-11 DECUS material.

*NOTE* on the two-CD distribution set:

This CD is part of a two-CD distribution set.  Volume 1 is an ISO9660
volume, for convenient browsing on a PC, Mac, or Workstation.  Note
that the "text" files on this volume follow the Unix newline convention:
a line feed at the end of each line.  On a PC under DOS or Windows, you
may need to call up the text files in a editor aware of the <LF> convention
for the newlines to appear in the proper places.

Volume 2 is an ODS-1 (native RSX-11) filesystem disk, filled with ODS-1
virtual disks.  These virtual disks can be mounted under RSX-11M+
4.5 or later by means of VCP, the Virtual Device Control Program, that
is distributed with the operating system.  In particular, if you
install VCP and create sufficient virtual volumes with the

        LOAD VF:/PAR=GEN
        INS $VCP
        VCP CREATE /UNIT=64

sequence, you can use the supplied command file [1,1]MOUNTCD.CMD to
automatically mount all the virtual disks on the CD and assign meaningful
logical names to them.  See MOUNTCD.COM for details.

-- 
 Tim Shoppa                        Email: shoppa@trailing-edge.com
 Trailing Edge Technology          WWW:   http://www.trailing-edge.com/
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