From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Other operating systems on the PDP-11
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:29:34 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020708025934.GH90012@wantadilla.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501c2262a$b3803140$8d53580c@who>
On Sunday, 7 July 2002 at 22:53:46 -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> I've got a question for those of you, who work more in that field then I.Has
> anyone successfully gotten, say, NetBSD, or anything along the lines of the
> 4.4 series to run on a PDP-11? Granted I don't think it would work there,
> because of the way its hardware was constructed. Or for that matter, say
> Linux? Since the Simh collection builds easily on Linux, I was thinking that
> it would be relatively simple to do so.
The big issue is address space. It's difficult enough shoehorning
2.11BSD onto the PDP-11. It's well-nigh impossible to retrofit 32 bit
operating systems. But Steven M. Schulz will doubtless give you a
better explanation.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-08 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-08 2:53 Gregg C Levine
2002-07-08 2:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2002-07-08 3:43 ` Warren Toomey
2002-07-08 4:30 Steven M. Schultz
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