RT-11 with Basic-11

by david 22. February 2011 22:22

I have now managed to get a boot disk with RT-11 and BASIC-11 on it (thanks Mark for making *another* boot disk on your PC).  So now I can boot my PDP and write programs on it.  Progress indeed.  Here is something I captured running on my actual PDP-11/53:

...as you can also see, I have also been busy experimenting with the best colours for my terminal emulator.  Today I am mostly programming with grey text on a blue background.  Getting this to work involved taking two 400k RX50 disk images and creating a single 1.2Mb RX33 image.  So I effectively merged the contents of the RT-11XM boot disk and the "Languages Master" disk into a single boot disk.  Works a treat.  This seems to boot much faster now, so I suppose the RX33 drive is much faster at reading 1.2Mb 5.25" floppy disks.

About the author

David

I'm a C# developer having worked with .Net since it was in beta.  Before that I mainly worked in C and C++.  I have been developing commercial software for more than 20 years.  I also mess around with microprocesors, but that's just for fun.  I live near Cambridge, England and at the moment I'm contracted to one of the departments at Cambridge University.

Tag cloud