[vcf-midatlantic] Using simH to make a real bootable RSX11/M 3.2 RL02 disk

[william degnan]

Now that I have my PDP 11/40 running with twin RL02's I have been having
fun with it by using simH to make disks and then porting them to an actual
disk using PDPGUI program.  Here's a good example, if you're looking to run
RSX11/M on a PDP 11, I worked through a way to get it onto an RL02 drive.
Version 3.2 will run on any PDP 11 with 64K, even 11/20.

http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=668

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.

I would love to run UNIX 6, but I have a bad extended instruction set card
(EIS M7238) so I have to wait for that to get fixed before I can run UNIX
:-(

Bill