On Feb 6, 2017, at 22:30, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I skimmed the web for a week, plus got some ideas and suggestions from simH users. The hard part was to find a way to get an operating system only found on RL01 drives to an actual RL02 drive. Most people believe RSX11/M is better than RT-11 I don't know yet, I was more interested in the process of making disks using simH. There is a lot of potential to do disk and tape operations with simH that would be impractical with actual hardware as very few of us have the real things.
"Better" is very subjective and depends on your use case. RT-11 is much lighter weight, but much less sophisticated. Think DOS vs. UNIX; DOS is a simple, single-user shell on top of the hardware, while UNIX is a grown-up OS with multiple users, processes, services, etc. but with higher overhead and a steeper learning curve. It's all a matter of what you want to use it for. - Dave