I would love to provide RSTS/E accounts to people who might be interested. But I don't know if I can even get the host machine out past AT&T's NAT routing. At one time I could SSH into my internal server via a port forward on 22 to the specific machineinside my home network, but at some point about two years ago, I could no longer reach that machine via the dynamic DNS or even the 'network facing' IP address. I suspect AT&T switched to carrier grade NAT so I am basically double natted.
So It might be impossible for me to host an RSTS/E for 'public' use.
That being the case - Do I want to run RSTS or RSX - It seems many of you have moved on to RSX for your machines, possibly because they are single user.
So, what is the group's wisdom?
That being the case, why not just run both, in two instances
of simh?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, President/Curator
Large Scale Systems Museum
New Kensington, PA
On 8/30/23 14:59, Ronald Hudson wrote:
That being the case - Do I want to run RSTS or RSX - It seems many of
you have moved on to RSX for your machines, possibly because they are
single user.
So, what is the group's wisdom?
Well, I don't know that it's fair to say "moved on to RSX". It's not like one was a successor to the other. They're both fine OSs. Just
like when they were current tech, the decision of which to run depends
first upon your requirements, then your knowledge and your comfort level.
For me, I love them both, so I run both. I also support both at the museum. They have their strengths and weaknesses. I think RSX is a
more technically advanced OS, but later RSTS implementation of DCL is
much better (IMO) than RSX's, meaning it's much more akin to VMS.
Which I've always thought was weird, given the relationship between
RSX and VMS, but hey, that's what they did.
I would love to provide RSTS/E accounts to people who might be interested. But I don't know if I can even get the host machine out past AT&T's NAT routing. At one time I could SSH into my internal server via a port forward on 22 to the specific machineinside my home network, but at some point about two years ago, I could no longer reach that machine via the dynamic DNS or even the 'network facing' IP address. I suspect AT&T switched to carrier grade NAT so I am basically double natted.
So It might be impossible for me to host an RSTS/E for 'public' use.
That being the case - Do I want to run RSTS or RSX - It seems many of you have moved on to RSX for your machines, possibly because they are single user.
So, what is the group's wisdom?
On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 12:09:18 PM UTC-7, Dave McGuire wrote:
...
That being the case, why not just run both, in two instances
of simh?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, President/Curator
Large Scale Systems Museum
New Kensington, PA
I kinda want to keep to one OS until I run dry on it before starting another. There is a lot to grock with RSTS/E and the exposure I had back when to VMS V3.1 is helping some.
Is RSX a single user system?
RT11 is right? I am guessing RT stands for REAL TIME and RT11 was probably used for SCADA / Process Control.
That being the case, why not just run both, in two instances
of simh?
I kinda want to keep to one OS until I run dry on it before starting another. There is a lot to grock with RSTS/E and the exposure I had back when to VMS V3.1 is helping some.
Is RSX a single user system?
RT11 is right? I am guessing RT stands for REAL TIME and RT11 was probably used for SCADA / Process Control.
I would love to provide RSTS/E accounts to people who might be
interested. But I don't know if I can even get the host machine out
past AT&T's NAT routing.
Ronald Hudson writes:
I would love to provide RSTS/E accounts to people who might beGet a $5/month VPS from linode.com and you should be able to use ssh port forwarding from the VPS (with its public IP address) back to your local server. For AT&T to break this config, they'd have to break _everything_.
interested. But I don't know if I can even get the host machine out
past AT&T's NAT routing.
Andy Valencia
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