[pups] DEC PRO or P/OS

[Fred N. van Kempen]

Well, those programs emulate both the CPU (which *is* the same as
those found in the PRO systems), but *also* the surrounding stuff
like disk controllers, serial controllers and so on.

It would not be (that) hard to add "PRO" emulation to SimH, if some
sort of hardware specs are still available.

cheers,
	Fred

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregg C Levine [mailto:hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:56 AM
> To: 'David Evans'
> Cc: pups at minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: RE: [pups] DEC PRO or P/OS
> 
> 
> Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine
> I take it this means that the software written for those things, won't
> run on an emulator normally running as a member of the regular PDP
> family of machines? Such as the SIMH PDP-11 emulator, or the E11 ones.
> Mr. Wilson, (John), mentions the operating system for the PRO, on the
> PDF file that describes the E11, both versions as being copyrighted,
> and mentions the company name.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pups-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org
> [mailto:pups-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On
> > Behalf Of Wilko Bulte
> > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:19 PM
> > To: David Evans
> > Cc: pups at minnie.tuhs.org; Gregg C Levine
> > Subject: Re: [pups] DEC PRO or P/OS
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:50:21PM -0500, David Evans wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:05:33PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > >
> > > > A Pro350 was an F11, a Pro380 a T11 (I hope I remember this
> correctly)
> > > > CPU. I think you could also run RT-11 on them. Some big VAX
> models
> > > > had Pro's as console processors/systems. RD5x disk drives on the
> Pro's.
> > > > And special I/O cards which only fit in Pros.
> > > >
> > >
> > >   Yeah, that's my memory as well.  Rick Macklem did a port of
> 2.9BSD to them.
> > > I used one for a time; it took something like thirty seconds to
> load vi!
> > 
> > The 380 was pretty much OK in my recollection. 350 was downright
> slow.
> > RD5x drives did not help here..
> > 
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