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==Technical Details== | ==Technical Details== | ||
RSTS is a general-purpose | RSTS is a general-purpose timesharing system for the PDP-11 computer. The first version was released in 1970. Called RSTS-11, it was installable only from a DOS-11. Toward the late 1970s, RSTS was no longer dependent on DOS-11, and by the mid-1980s RSTS was a fully-matured, richly-featured timesharing system with over 10,000 licensed users and an unknown number of unlicensed ones. RSTS (and the rest of the PDP-11 software line) was sold to Mentec in 1994, and soon thereafter released for free under a hobbyist license. | ||
==Character Details== | ==Character Details== | ||
====General==== | ====General==== | ||
RSTS-tan | Depicted as the tallest and most statuesque of the PDP-11-tans, RSTS-tan has shoulder-length silvery-blonde hair, reddish eyes and typically wears a plain burgundy DEC military blouse, dark grey pants and boots. She is generally energetic, with a great love of competition and showing off her physical strength and magical skills. Like the majority of DEC-tans, she prefers physical weapons and brute-strength to sorcery-based attacks. | ||
RSTS-tan is | In spite of RSTS-tan's competitive and sometimes borderline-boastful nature, she is good-natured and sociable, perhaps moreso than any of her fellow PDP-11 OS-tans. She is also the only one to make any substantial inroads into academia, though she was still somewhat unpopular compared to the Unix-tans. | ||
Although she is generally competent, RSTS-tan is not without her faults. She was unusually slow to mature compared to many of her companions, relying on [[DOS-11]]-tan's assistance well into the 1970s. As well, she also suffered from significant security-faults and could lack physical agility at times. | |||
==History and background== | ==History and background== | ||
==Family and Relationships== | ==Family and Relationships== | ||
RSTS-tan's only known relative is her mother, TSS/8-tan - a small timesharing-system-tan who worked alongside [[PDP-8]]-tan. [[DOS-11]]-tan helped raise and assist RSTS throughout the 1970s, and it is suspected that RSTS' size and social power within the DEC clan helped keep check on DOS-11-tan's ill temper. | |||
Her closest friends are RSX and[[RT-11]], although she does sometimes have to tone down her high-energy attitude while in their presence. Despite a large age gap, and and [[VMS]]-tan get along well and associate to this day. | |||
[[Category:DEC]][[Category:Minicomputer]][[Category:Historical]] | [[Category:DEC]][[Category:Minicomputer]][[Category:Historical]] | ||
Revision as of 13:09, 13 October 2012
| RSTS | |
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| Character Information | |
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| Common Names | RSTS |
| Other Names | RTSS, RSTS/E, RSTS-11, as well as other unmarketed names |
| Human Name(s) | Ristess Witcraft |
| Faction | DEC Military |
| Lineage | DEC, PDP-11 |
| Rival(s) | Unix |
| Appearance | |
| Height | 5'8 |
| Hair Color | Silver-blonde |
| Eye Color | Burgundy |
| Weapon(s) | Axe |
| Design | |
| First Appearance | 2007 |
| Technical Information | |
| System Personified | RSTS and its variants |
| Developer(s) | DEC |
| Debut | 2A-19, 1972 |
| Latest release | V10.1 / September 1992 |
Technical Details
RSTS is a general-purpose timesharing system for the PDP-11 computer. The first version was released in 1970. Called RSTS-11, it was installable only from a DOS-11. Toward the late 1970s, RSTS was no longer dependent on DOS-11, and by the mid-1980s RSTS was a fully-matured, richly-featured timesharing system with over 10,000 licensed users and an unknown number of unlicensed ones. RSTS (and the rest of the PDP-11 software line) was sold to Mentec in 1994, and soon thereafter released for free under a hobbyist license.
Character Details
General
Depicted as the tallest and most statuesque of the PDP-11-tans, RSTS-tan has shoulder-length silvery-blonde hair, reddish eyes and typically wears a plain burgundy DEC military blouse, dark grey pants and boots. She is generally energetic, with a great love of competition and showing off her physical strength and magical skills. Like the majority of DEC-tans, she prefers physical weapons and brute-strength to sorcery-based attacks.
In spite of RSTS-tan's competitive and sometimes borderline-boastful nature, she is good-natured and sociable, perhaps moreso than any of her fellow PDP-11 OS-tans. She is also the only one to make any substantial inroads into academia, though she was still somewhat unpopular compared to the Unix-tans.
Although she is generally competent, RSTS-tan is not without her faults. She was unusually slow to mature compared to many of her companions, relying on DOS-11-tan's assistance well into the 1970s. As well, she also suffered from significant security-faults and could lack physical agility at times.
History and background
Family and Relationships
RSTS-tan's only known relative is her mother, TSS/8-tan - a small timesharing-system-tan who worked alongside PDP-8-tan. DOS-11-tan helped raise and assist RSTS throughout the 1970s, and it is suspected that RSTS' size and social power within the DEC clan helped keep check on DOS-11-tan's ill temper.
Her closest friends are RSX andRT-11, although she does sometimes have to tone down her high-energy attitude while in their presence. Despite a large age gap, and and VMS-tan get along well and associate to this day.