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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] First Unix that could run on a PDP-11 with QBUS
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:57:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12864D2F-74BC-4B9C-B7C4-10C8E6F99BB5@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N5A6csnxRftSgEAV_q9qVAiQXH_c=4x_RjYs1=7XSR5Wg@mail.gmail.com>

We had miniunix that we were running on a 11/40 without mm moved to the 11/03 in the lab at JHU.   We replaces that with an 11/23 running our own v6-derived kernel with little difficulty.



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> On Jul 26, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Mark Longridge <cubexyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I was digging around trying to figure out which Unixes would run on a
> PDP-11 with QBUS.  It seems that the very early stuff like v5 was
> strictly UNIBUS and that the first version of Unix that supported QBUS
> was v7m (please correct me if this is wrong).
> 
> I was thinking that the MicroPDP-11's were all QBUS and that it would
> be easier to run a Unix on a MicroPDP because they are the most
> compact. So I figured I would try to obtain a Unix v7m distribution
> tape image. I see the Jean Huens files on tuhs but I'm not sure what
> to do with them.
> 
> I have hopes to eventually run a Unix on real hardware but for now I'm
> going to stick with simh. It seems like DEC just didn't make a desktop
> that could run Bell Labs Unix, e.g. we can't just grab a DEC Pro-350
> and stick Unix v7 on it. Naturally I'll still have fun checking out
> Unix v5 on the emulator but it would be nice to eventually run a Unix
> with all the source code at hand on a real machine.
> 
> Mark
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-28 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-27  2:37 Mark Longridge
2014-07-28 15:57 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2014-07-27  3:26 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-27  5:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-28 22:04   ` Warren Toomey
2014-07-28 22:38     ` Warner Losh
2014-07-29  9:06       ` SPC
2014-07-29 13:28     ` Clem Cole
2014-07-27  5:39 Norman Wilson
2014-07-27  6:02 ` John Cowan
2014-07-27 14:10   ` Bill Pechter
2014-07-27 17:16     ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-28 13:27 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-28 22:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-29  9:46   ` Warren Toomey
2014-07-29  9:56   ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-29 14:33     ` Clem Cole
2014-07-29 13:10   ` Milo Velimirović

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