On 14 May 2013, at 07:52, emu at e-bbes.com wrote:

> Quoting "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier at poofygoof.com>:
> 
>> are there any synthesizable (hardware description language) versions of
>> PDP or VAX available?  seems like hybrid FPGA / SW emulation platforms
>> would be an interesting experimentation space.
> 
> Few PDP11s (VHDL?) are out there, no VAX in the wild as far as I know …
> 

Yes; I've run 7th Edition on

http://pdp2011.sytse.net/wordpress/

Was too lazy to get 2.11BSD working and I see that it has progressed a lot in the year since I tried it. I think I played with

http://opencores.org/project,w11

too but I can't remember what I did.

I've spent most time with an -8 and there are a couple of -10s out there but then that's not Unix...