RSX-11
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RSX-11 is a discontinued family of multi-user real-time operating systems for PDP-11 computers created by Digital Equipment Corporation. In widespread use through the late 1970s and early 1980s, RSX-11 was influential in the development of later operating systems such as VMS and Windows NT.
Key facts
- OS.name
- RSX-11
- OS.screenshot
- Rsx-11m-plus.png
- OS.caption
- RSX-11M-Plus 4.6 running on the SIMH emulator.
- OS.developer
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- OS.source_model
- Closed source; kernel source code included
- OS.supported_platforms
- PDP-11
- OS.influenced
- OpenVMS
- OS.influenced_by
- RSX-15
- OS.ui
- DCL and MCR Command-line interface
- OS.latest_release_version
- RSX-11M Plus 4.6
- OS.programmed_in
- MACRO-11, BLISS
- OS.prog_language
- FORTRAN-77 BASIC COBOL
- OS.working_state
- Discontinued
- OS.license
- Proprietary
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Name and origins
- RSX-11D and IAS
- Release dates
- Legal ownership, development model and availability
- Versions
- Main versions
- Hardware-specific variants
- Clones in the USSR and other Eastern Bloc countries
- Operation
- See also
- References
- External links
RSX-11 is a discontinued family of multi-user real-time operating systems for PDP-11 computers created by Digital Equipment Corporation. In widespread use through the late 1970s and early 1980s, RSX-11 was influential in the development of later operating systems such as VMS and Windows NT.
As the original Real-Time System Executive name suggests, RSX was designed (and commonly used) for real time use, with process control a major use. It was also popular for program development and general computing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RSX-11” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.