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From: Eric
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:48

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kcwellsc@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Ken Wellsch) writes:
: You get a boot block installed by inserting one of the various Pro O/S
: installation diskettes into the RX50 floppy drive and booting the machine
: (i.e. power it on).  The machine runs software specific to the Pro.

aha. I tried installing from a floppy distribution of P/OS and it too
complained about the disk drive not being available, or something. I
think I forgot to mention this in my original posting...
: 
: The Pro 325/350 may use the F11 chip, but is not a PDP 11/23 (i.e. with
: Q-bus devices and standard device addresses etc.) ... memory mapped video,
: etc.
I know. I just wanted to see if they'd kept some standard device
addresses, which obviously they didn't. But isn't there a version of
RT-11 that will run on the PRO? 

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