From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix on PDP8?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:28:12 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171129222812.GA9345@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711300908360.67700@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 09:11:19AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> C itself is going to be difficult on the PDP-8.
Yes, as noted on this page: http://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/C/C.php
> You could start with (an early) Minix, I guess; we ran it on a PDT (I
> think) with 2 x RX-05 floppies. Slow, but it worked, sort of.
You mean Xinu, perhaps? Minix was always an 80x86 and 680x0 system.
There is also xv6: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2017/xv6.html
with a small monolithic kernel. I've added a BSD library and runtime
to the kernel here: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/xv6-freebsd
Of course, you could always go retro and try Mini Unix :)
Cheers, Warren
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-29 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-28 19:55 Will Senn
2017-11-28 20:24 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-28 23:26 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-29 6:56 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-29 14:05 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-30 0:53 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-11-30 8:34 ` emanuel stiebler
2017-11-29 14:31 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-29 22:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-29 22:28 ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2017-11-29 23:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-30 1:17 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-11-30 2:37 ` Dave Horsfall
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