Andy Linton
But you will be able to run Unix on it if you can find a copy of the right software. This machine will run Bell Labs 6th and 7th edition quite happily. You should also be able to get BSD 2.9 to work on it if you can find sources for any of them. You are likely to need a tape drive to bootstrap the process unless you can find floppies with the sources on them.
If it's an 11/73, it'll happily run 2.11 BSD. Check out http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/ for stuff on running Unix on pdp11s.
emacs user. For those who describe 'emacs' as 'eight megs and constantly swapping' I can state this was not true in those days. We didn't have
Actually, no pdp11 could have more than 4MB (actually 4MB - 8KB for the I/O page) without some seriously non-standard hardware.
Even though there is an Ethernet interface TCP/IP networking may be more problematic.
2.11 BSD ethernets and TCP/IPs just fine. Oh, and of course a pdp11 is a 16 bit machine in pretty much every way that matters. This *will* cramp the style of anyone brought up with "modern" programming techniques... -- don (who also cut several molars on pdp11s, but running RSTS/E, not Unix.) - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog