>>>I would really like to run Unix on a PDP-11 (hopefully a 45 with all core
>>>and FPU) but have never found the software.
>>
>>You *aren't* working in a vacuum, you know :-). For the past several
>
>Until I got on this list that is what it felt like. Most people don't know
>about this list and only have access to the info available on the newsgroups
>or peoples pages which tends to be incomplete.
Since I work hard to let people know about the archives of PDP-11 software
already out there on the net and on CD-ROM, I'd be interested in knowing
where (exactly!) you looked and how you came to the conclusion that there
was a vacuum.
>>years, Bob Supnik's emulators have come with Unix V5 through V7
>>binary distributions (see ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/sim/ ),
>I have been told that the software there *only* runs on the simulator.
Nope, it'll run on the real deal too. You have to be a bit careful:
most of the old Unices there think they're running on a Unibus
machine, so if you run them on a Q-bus machine some funny things
will happen if you go above 256K due to the lack of a Unibus map.
(This applies to the simulator, too, since it emulates a 11/53!)
> Will
>the software on the site listed above run on real hardware or was it
>modified to only run on the simulators? I was told by a list member that the
>RT11 there will not run on real hardware.
I think you're confusing "it can't" with "you aren't supposed to".
The hobbyist license that Supnik worked out only allows you to run the
software under his (or another DEC) emulator. There's talk about a
very much more permissive license deal coming up, but the talk is -
so far - just talk, and it could get nixed by the lawyers simply taking
inaction on it. If and when it does turn solid, you can bet that this
mailing list will be one of the first places you hear about it.
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