11 May
2014
11 May
'14
4:16 p.m.
This is also an RSX pack (I think), but when I tried to boot it, it said
"THIS VOLUME DOES NOT CONTAIN A HARDWARE BOOTABLE SYSTEM", and since I
don't
know how to mount disks under RSX-11 I left it at that.
There exists somewhere a UNIX program that reads an ODS-1 file-system
image and produces directory listings and extracts named files.
I know it exists because it was written by a friend (and probably hacked
around a little by me) almost 35 years ago, when we both worked in a
place that had some UNIX and some RSX-11. That means `somewhere'
probably includes some place in my old files. I'll see if I can
dig it out, upgrade it to work cleanly with modern C (it's just possible
I have an ODS-1 file system image lying around somewher too), and
post it either somewhere on the web or just to the list.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
11 May
11 May
4:45 p.m.
New subject: Work I've done with a PDP-11 simulator
Norman Wilson scripsit:
This is also an RSX pack (I think), but when I tried
to boot it, it said
"THIS VOLUME DOES NOT CONTAIN A HARDWARE BOOTABLE SYSTEM", and since I
don't
know how to mount disks under RSX-11 I left it at that.
There exists somewhere a UNIX program that reads an ODS-1 file-system
image and produces directory listings and extracts named files.
I also found an ODS-2/ODS-5 driver for Linux at
<http://www.vms2linux.de/ods5fs.html>. Whether it would handle ODS-1,
I don't know.
In any case, it would be worth transferring these two images to bitsavers
so that they can be found by people who want RSX-11M volumes.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
It's the old, old story. Droid meets droid. Droid becomes chameleon.
Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
again. It's a classic tale. --Kryten, Red Dwarf
10:19 p.m.
New subject: Work I've done with a PDP-11 simulator
The web page mentions files-11 which is ODS-1.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan <cowan(a)mercury.ccil.org>
To: Norman Wilson <norman(a)oclsc.org>
Cc: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Sent: Sun, 11 May 2014 12:46
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Work I've done with a PDP-11 simulator
Norman Wilson scripsit:
This is also an RSX pack (I think), but when I tried
to boot it, it said
"THIS VOLUME DOES NOT CONTAIN A HARDWARE BOOTABLE SYSTEM", and since I
don't
know how to mount disks under RSX-11 I left it at that.
There exists somewhere a UNIX program that reads an ODS-1 file-system
image and produces directory listings and extracts named files.
I also found an ODS-2/ODS-5 driver for Linux at
<http://www.vms2linux.de/ods5fs.html>. Whether it would handle ODS-1,
I don't know.
In any case, it would be worth transferring these two images to bitsavers
so that they can be found by people who want RSX-11M volumes.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
It's the old, old story. Droid meets droid. Droid becomes chameleon.
Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
again. It's a classic tale. --Kryten, Red Dwarf
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