Rsx Multi-Tasker

This document is the October 1984 issue of the RSX Multi-Tasker newsletter, published by DECUS (Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society). The content includes:

• Organizational News: Updates from various working groups within the RSX Special Interest Group, including information on unsupported versions, system performance, tape collections, and networking.
• Menu Voting: A call to action for RSX users to participate in the annual menu balloting to prioritize issues for the RSX-11M operating system. It also includes a detailed list of feedback from DEC's development engineering team regarding previous menu requests.

• Technical Articles:

  • Instructions for a fix regarding "SRD" (Software/System bug) issues related to corrupted dates on ODS1 disks restored on VMS.
  • An announcement renaming the LABS SIG to "DAARC" (Data Acquisition, Analysis, Research and Control).
  • A technical note on a terminal driver "bug" in RSX-11M-Plus Update D regarding DTR signal handling.
  • A guide on using a second terminal (TT2) on a PC350 with the Native Toolkit.
  • An article by A. Randall Barron providing a command file (TSKBLT) to track programs that depend on a specific subroutine.
  • An article on using "Virtual Arrays" in common blocks, which is an unsupported feature that some users still find useful.
  • An in-depth technical explanation of how Asynchronous System Traps (ASTs) work in RSX, including rules for writing AST service routines and code examples for Fortran developers.

• Appendices: Technical code listings for routines such as SAVFPP (to save FPP registers) and TTYATA (for handling unsolicited character inputs).