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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:11:19 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix on PDP8?
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:

> C itself is going to be difficult on the PDP-8.  Too much ingrained (and 
> now codified by ANSI/ISO) that requires shorts to be at least 16 bits 
> and longs to be at least 32 bits, neither of which the 8 supports well. 
> Even the EAE or FP modules only added limited 24 bit support.

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.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."