Of course I am :-) Kind Regards SPc. 2014-04-30 4:19 GMT+02:00 Noel Chiappa : > Hello, all: I'm working (long-term) on a project to bring back to life the > V6+ Unix system (it wasn't vanilla V6 - it looks like it had some PWB stuff > added) that was used on a number of machines at the Laboratory for Computer > Science at MIT in the late 70s - early 80s. > > > As part of that, I've been playing with bringing up V6 on a PDP11 > simulator, > and have written some stuff that would probably be useful to anyone who's > interested in bringing up Unix on a PDP-11 simulator. > > I used the Ersatz-11 simulator from D-Bit (for no particularly good reason, > except it runs under Windoze, and the "FAQ on the Unix Archive and Unix on > the PDP-11" page said it was the fastest). > > I have been very pleased with this simulator; it is indeed fast (my > simulated > 11/70 runs at about 100 MIPS on a relatively elderly Athlon, which is about > 30 times as fast as a real one used to :-), and it has lots of nice > features > (e.g. you can TELNET in to a terminal port on the simulated PDP-11). > > It also has this nice virtual device that allows a program running on the > simulated PDP-11 i) access to files in the Windows file system, and ii) to > issue commands to the emulator. I have written a V6 driver for it (should > be > fairly easy to adapt to V7 or later), and a suite of Unix commands to grab > a > file off the Windows file system (both binary and text mode), and issue > various commands to the simulator. > > Finally, I have a number of Windows commands to do various useful things, > such as read a file off a simulated Unix V6 file system (hosted in a > Windows > file), including ports of a number of Unix commands (e.g. ncheck, nm, > etc); I > don't detail them all here as I don't want this email to get too long (and > boring). > > > I'm not sure if anyone's interested in any of this; if so, I can send > in more info (or whip up a Web page, whichever would be better). > > I also ran into a number of pitfalls on the way to getting V6 running, > using > RK05 disk images from the TUHS archive, and I can do a short writeup on > 'How > to bring up V6 under Ersatz-11' if anyone's interested. > > Noel > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > -- Gracias | Regards Saludos - Greetings - Freundliche Grüße - Salutations -- *Sergio Pedraja* twitter: @sergio_pedraja skype: Sergio Pedraja http://plus.google.com/u/0/101292256663392735405 http://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiopedraja http://www.quora.com/Sergio-Pedraja http://spedraja.wordpress.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Sergio_Pedraja http://www.viadeo.com http://www.avalonred.com/ ----- No crea todo lo que ve, ni crea que está viéndolo todo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: