KERMIT-12 (or anything else) for the KL8-A? - alt.sys.pdp8

Message from discussion KERMIT-12 (or anything else) for the KL8-A?

Johnny Billquist

View profile

More options May 1, 1:44 pm

Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp8

From: Johnny Billquist <b...@update.uu.se>

Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:46 +0200

Local: Thurs, May 1 2008 1:44 pm

Subject: Re: KERMIT-12 (or anything else) for the KL8-A?

  Reply to author
  |
  Forward
  | Print
  | View thread
  | Show original
  | Report this message
  | Find messages by this author
  

Vincent Slyngstad skrev:

> "Bob Armstrong" wrote ...
>> On May 1, 6:23 am, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> why would you ever want four serial lines in WPS-8?
>> Wasn't the DEC DataSystem 310 a PDP-8/A based WPS system? It used a
>> VT52 as the editing terminal, and I suppose it's possible that there
>> was a timeshared version of WPS that supported four terminals at once.

> I believe so, and looking at some of my WPS documents, there was
> definitely KL8A support there, and something also used KL8A in the
> DECnet software (which I know even less about).

That the DEC DataSystem 310 is a PDP-8/A is definitely true. However, they
didn't run WPS-8, but COS-300. A OS with DIBOL included... (I bet the C in COS
stands for Commercial. :-) )
It might have been time shared, but I really don't know for sure. Never seen
COS-300 in real life.

> I hadn't said anything, as I'm not sure that it is really a different
> thing from the RTS support. Wasn't the multi-user WPS based on RTS?
> I've never used either, so I only have a vague memory of reading that
> somewhere. Maybe I'm thinking of Edusystem, or something.

I think people are mixing systems and options up from hearsay here, but that's
just what I think.
I'll see if I can dig up any more information. It's been so long since I was
running through this documentation that I really don't remember where I have it.

Johnny

--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

Reply to author Forward