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From: wilson@dbit.com (John Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: Re: Whats a VAXmate?
Date: 16 Sep 1997 23:27:02 GMT
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In article <341E707B.2CE8@gce.com>,
Glenn Everhart  <Everhart@Arisia.GCE.Com> wrote:
>Yep. At one time at least, you could get os/278 for a Decmate III
>and run it. There was some grief because the DECUS library version
>of the diskettes had "slushware" for Decmate II (also pdp8) and
>needed this transferred from the WPS diskettes that generally came
>with a Decmate III to let os/278 work.

Lee Nichols has created versions of these disks with the newer
slushware that works on DECmate II/III/III+, they're available from
ftp://ftp.dbit.com/pub/pdp8/images/block.  The files in this directory
do not require Teledisk, they're in a form which can be copied directly
to RX50s on a PDP-11 or VAX, or written using the PUTR utility on PCs
(available from the same site).

Note that the equivalent files in the ".../images/sector" directory are
all protected because I got sick of everyone blindly downloading both
versions instead of figuring out which one they'll be able to write
to floppies.  If you really need the "sector" images (see the READMEs to
see what I mean by "block" and "sector" images), drop me a line and I'll
unprotect them.

>Several
>compilers exist (or existed...might be hard to lay hands on them
>if nobody's saved them)...  os/278 came with an assembler or two,
>and there was Pascal

The Pascal compiler that showed up surprisingly late in the DECUS
library (long after new PDP-8 software stopped appearing) is also
on ftp.dbit.com, in source form anyway.

John Wilson
D Bit