From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:57:21 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] First Unix that could run on a PDP-11 with QBUS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <12864D2F-74BC-4B9C-B7C4-10C8E6F99BB5@ronnatalie.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. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 26, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Mark Longridge 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 > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs