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   =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= to bill   
   Re: Semper VMS - Nuclear Mode   
   26 Oct 25 10:55:48   
   
   From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 10/26/2025 8:35 AM, bill wrote:   
   > On 10/26/2025 6:42 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:   
   >> On 2025-10-25 03:35, bill wrote:   
   >>> On 10/24/2025 1:34 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>>> And it seems like a case where support does matter.   
   >>>   
   >>> The last mention of the PDP-11 in this kind of work was looking   
   >>> for people with MACRO-11 experience.  It would not surprise me   
   >>> to find out that no commercial OS is involved (possible no OS at   
   >>> all, just running an application on bare metal),  A VAX in the   
   >>> same environment could do the same.   
   >>   
   >> You need some PDP-11 OS running in order to use Macro-11. And unless I   
   >> remember wrong, at least Ontario Hydroelectric was/is running RSX.   
   >   
   > To do the development maybe.  But one can create programs in Macro-11   
   > that run all by themselves on bare iron.  Fig Forth?   
      
   Like VAXELN?   
      
   Arne   
      
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