From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:12:42 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Unix on PDP8? In-Reply-To: <20171129222812.GA9345@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <7wr2sh60a9.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <00cf01d3691e$c80766e0$581634a0$@ronnatalie.com> <20171129222812.GA9345@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: 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."