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    From SYSOP@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 12 11:15:29 2020
    just a test

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  • From John H. Reinhardt@21:1/5 to SYSOP on Thu Nov 12 08:08:16 2020
    On 11/12/2020 5:15 AM, SYSOP wrote:
    just a test

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    You made it...

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    John H. Reinhardt

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  • From Andy Valencia@21:1/5 to John H. Reinhardt on Sun Nov 7 05:48:14 2021
    "John H. Reinhardt" <johnhreinhardt@thereinhardts.org> writes:
    just a test
    You made it...
    John H. Reinhardt

    With the justification that this old group is the closest I could
    find... I just discovered RSX280. This is a clone of RSX11, as
    realized on the Zilog Z280 CPU. Open source, and I must say it's
    a very impressive achievement:

    https://github.com/hperaza/RSX280

    I'm rather tempted to code up a TECO in z80 assembler....

    Andy Valencia
    Home page: https://www.vsta.org/andy/
    To contact me: https://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html

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  • From Bill Gunshannon@21:1/5 to Andy Valencia on Sun Nov 7 10:02:29 2021
    On 11/7/21 8:48 AM, Andy Valencia wrote:
    "John H. Reinhardt" <johnhreinhardt@thereinhardts.org> writes:
    just a test
    You made it...
    John H. Reinhardt

    With the justification that this old group is the closest I could
    find... I just discovered RSX280. This is a clone of RSX11, as
    realized on the Zilog Z280 CPU. Open source, and I must say it's
    a very impressive achievement:

    https://github.com/hperaza/RSX280

    Is that a further port of RSX180 which ran on the P112?
    I tried it and it was really cool. Have to give this a
    look, too. But I don't think I have anything that runs
    a Z280.


    I'm rather tempted to code up a TECO in z80 assembler....

    I have always wanted to do a clone of RSTS like this but
    never seemed to get a round tuit.

    bill

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  • From Andy Valencia@21:1/5 to Bill Gunshannon on Sun Nov 7 15:07:31 2021
    Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> writes:
    Is that a further port of RSX180 which ran on the P112?

    Yes, that's what the comments indicate.

    I tried it and it was really cool. Have to give this a
    look, too. But I don't think I have anything that runs
    a Z280.

    And even this is solved for you!

    https://github.com/mtdev79/z280emu

    I'm rather tempted to code up a TECO in z80 assembler....
    I have always wanted to do a clone of RSTS like this but
    never seemed to get a round tuit.

    RSTS/E was my first "big iron" when I started doing swing shift
    operator duties, but I always felt like RSX (11M) was more elegant.
    I suspect Dave Cutler's style resonated with me, even back then.

    Andy Valencia
    Home page: https://www.vsta.org/andy/
    To contact me: https://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html

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  • From Tony Nicholson@21:1/5 to Andy Valencia on Mon Nov 8 14:07:06 2021
    On Monday, November 8, 2021 at 10:12:10 AM UTC+11, Andy Valencia wrote:
    Bill Gunshannon writes:
    Is that a further port of RSX180 which ran on the P112?
    Yes, that's what the comments indicate.
    I tried it and it was really cool. Have to give this a
    look, too. But I don't think I have anything that runs
    a Z280.
    And even this is solved for you!

    https://github.com/mtdev79/z280emu
    I'm rather tempted to code up a TECO in z80 assembler....
    I have always wanted to do a clone of RSTS like this but
    never seemed to get a round tuit.
    RSTS/E was my first "big iron" when I started doing swing shift
    operator duties, but I always felt like RSX (11M) was more elegant.
    I suspect Dave Cutler's style resonated with me, even back then.
    Andy Valencia
    Home page: https://www.vsta.org/andy/
    To contact me: https://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html

    Just stumbled in here and see the reference to Hector Peraza's
    RSX280. If you wish to try this using z280emu, I have my
    CompactFlash disk image up on Google Drive at -

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-JCkHZGTah-qvT_x8LwascZHC2v67hTU/view?usp=sharing

    To try it, decompress the cf00.dsk.gz file into the same directory as
    z280emu, then

    ./z280rc

    and on another window run this script to get the system console -

    #!/bin/sh
    save_state=$(stty -g)
    stty raw -echo
    nc -C 127.0.0.1 10280
    stty "$save_state"

    The image contains CP/M 2, CP/M-Plus, RSX280 and UZI280 for
    the Z280RC. To start UZI280 you must boot CP/M 3 and use the
    BOOTUZI command (I haven't yet added native boot code to UZI280
    from the monitor).

    bootuzi
    C:BOOTUZI COM

    UZI280 is (c) Copyright (1990-96) by Stefan Nitschke and Doug Braun

    boot: 0
    UZI280 version 1.12
    login: root
    [root]/usr/root#

    Tony

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  • From Tony Nicholson@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 8 14:11:17 2021
    To try it, decompress the cf00.dsk.gz file into the same directory as z280emu, then

    ./z280rc

    P.S. The "IO: Bogus" read and write messages from z280emu
    are a result of trying to access the Quad Serial port device. You can
    ignore these for now. I believe support will be added to z280emu
    at some stage.

    Tony

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  • From Andy Valencia@21:1/5 to Tony Nicholson on Mon Nov 8 17:20:48 2021
    Tony Nicholson <agn453@gmail.com> writes:
    Just stumbled in here and see the reference to Hector Peraza's
    RSX280. If you wish to try this using z280emu, I have my
    CompactFlash disk image up on Google Drive at -

    Thank you! Note the images are also on:

    https://github.com/hperaza/RSX280

    in the DiskImages folder:

    README.md cf-partition-z280rc-32M-210522.img.gz cf128m-full.img.gz

    Andy

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