Wondering which OS to use (PDP-8/A)

[Johnny Billquist]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

> >Subject: Re: Wondering which OS to use (PDP-8/A)
> >   From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at Update.UU.SE>
> >   Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:06:20 +0200 (CEST)
> >     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> >
> >On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> You may or may not have an RL boot PROM in your KM8AA, but if you
> >> don't, you can always key in the RL bootstrap by hand.
> >
> >I'm not even sure they exist. Anyone have boot roms for RL?
>
> There must be as DEC sold 8As and RL02s as multi user WPS systems
> (wps200 comes to mind).

Good point!

> No idea what the underlying OS for WPS was.

There wasn't any. WPS is self contained. I have a RX01 floppy with WPS-8
somewhere... I've even booted it on one 8/A here. Works fine. :-)

	Johnny

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