What about TSX+? Good News!

[Lyle Bickley]

I just received permission this morning from S&H to release TSX Plus 6.5, 
RTSORT and COBOL and their associated documentation to the PDP-11 collector 
community for non-commercial use.

I'm in the process of working with other folks to determine the best way to 
support the distribution under a non-commercial "license".  Be a bit patient 
while we work out the details.

For those who aren't familiar with S&H's very cool PDP-11 products, here's a 
brief overview:

TSX Plus - enables multiuser, multiterminal RT (you must already have a copy 
of RT to implement this product)

RTSORT - the fastest sort program available for the PDP-11.  Sorting used to 
be a major function in commercial data processing (and still is in mainframe 
"Batch" processing).  RTSORT ran circles around Digital's own sort package.

COBOL - the big deal is that while DEC's COBOL required careful planning of 
overlays - S&H's COBOL did automatic virtual handling of memory - so one 
could take off-the-shelf IBM COBOL programs and run them on a DEC systems 
without the need to modify them for "overlays".

Be assured that we will expedite this release as soon as reasonably possible.  
Please do not ask me privately for a copy of these products in the meantime.

Regards,
Lyle
-- 
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com

"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"