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.
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Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa@trailing-edge.com
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