From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix on PDP8?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:12:42 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711300957090.67700@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171129222812.GA9345@minnie.tuhs.org>
On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
>> 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.
Can't remember; we're talking late 70s / early 80s, and my organic
associative memory ain't the best these days. I was busy running a
network of 11/40s, squeezing as much of V7 into V6 as I could, and talking
the poxy UT-200 protocol for RJE (the original purpose of our 11/40s) with
its broken implementation on the Cyber 72.
Damn; I wish I still had those CSU tapes, but they'd be unreadable by now
(IMHO my "ei.c" driver was a work of art).
> Of course, you could always go retro and try Mini Unix :)
That rings a bell; we're talking about the early UNSW Unix days (CSU,
AGSM, Basser, Elec Eng, etc).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-29 23:12 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
2017-11-29 23:12 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-11-30 1:17 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-11-30 2:37 ` Dave Horsfall
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